Goodbye threads in general are attention whoring. The fact that 75% of them end up as LOL JK IM STAYING NOW THAT EVERYONE SAID THEY'D MISS ME or whatever the endcase is makes it all the worse.
Forum policy should include a ban on anyones account after they make their quitting post.
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How to start your own project:
1. Annoy everybody on an existing project by submitting or proposing changes that they don't want
2. Formally declare all existing projects to be complete crap
3. Talk at great length about the deficiencies of other projects
4. Get drunk
5. ???
6. Profit