Maybe because I'm newer it's not coming up. I've been into the preferences and it's not there. I can't remember where it came up when I hit it... It's "Alert when someone starts a new thread" ... I was a mod on another forum, so I think I know my way around.... But I am getting old haha. The only thing that I can think of is that it might have to be disabled by the web master because the removal tab was overlooked, or I'm just blind, more then likely.