User blog comment:Dolten/New blog rules/@comment-1373755-20100517205925

If you want to ask someone on their talk page or in IRC, that's fine, we don't have a problem with that. But when blogs start appearing that make it so blog comments are the only thing you see on the 50 most recent changes, we've got a big problem. It's been clogging the recent changes to the point of being counterproductive to the wiki itself. I've seen vandalism go unnoticed for 3 or more hours because of stuff like this.