Forum:Should we retain blogs?

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Blogs sort of appeared one day on the wiki. I think back then it wasn't possible to refuse them. They were just here. Now, however, it is possible to turn them off. So we should probably have a discussion about whether we actually want the service. We don't have a huge amount of blogging going on, so I can't imagine it'd inconvenience too many people if we shut off the system. Plus, blogs appear in the default search. Since blogs are a free form area controlled by the user, they could contain spoilers, to which unsuspecting users would be exposed.

I kinda wanna get rid of it, but I wonder what others think.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  <span style="">06:37: Fri 24 Aug 2012 

I've never been moved to want to use them.

I think if users want a free form area to mess around in or have a ramble they can create a sub-page.

I've also seen some blogs used to now exactly go against our various discussion policies, but there's some that have approached a personal attack by way of a cutting comment or whatever.

Yes, they do have a post and then reply sort of format to them, but it's a very personal sort of thing, one person posts and it's linked to their name, you can reply but it's not the same as in a community forum or a talk page where it's more balanced.

So, get rid of them. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:07, August 24, 2012 (UTC)