Forum:Getting rid of dumb blogs

I suggested this a while ago, but an effective way to let admins deal with the "blogging issue" or w/e is to let us freely delete dumb blogs. By "dumb blogs", I mean stuff like "if u were in teh zombie apolaculype what wud u use to kill zombiez", "if u cud have a CoD gun glued to ur hand what would u want", "wut wuld happen if u had to kill ghost" and "wut are u eating right now". IMO, these types of blogs are just plain stupid, clog up the recent changes page and serve no point at all; the wiki would be much better off without them. I've been wanting to mass purge this stupid shit for a while, but I wanna see what the community says about it first. Dunn already wiped a dumb blog, which is a step in the right direction, if that means anything.

The question is: what do you guys think about getting rid of dumb blogs? Good idea, bad idea, admin power abuse, other?

Darkman 4 18:16, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

Good. 18:18, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

I think it's good, just tell users to use the Cod Social wiki in the future, so they wouldn't clog up the My Home.  Munchable901 |TaLk?   18:21, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

Just start NOW. It's time we end this. /replaces mouse batteries/ 18:22, July 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I also agree that we should get rid of dumb blogs. As I have stated before, blogs that are off topic dont belong on the Wiki. Blogs such as, "help me, my g/f dumped me", "what do you think of me?", and the like have no place on the wiki. On the same note, someone could make a template that states that the blog they made does not conform to COD wiki standards. The template would have to state the type of blogs that are allowed. Then the template could be posted onto the users talk page letting them know why their blog was deleted. 20PX_SIG.gif  Talk 18:37, July 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree that we should get rid of all dumb blogs. We have a Cod Social Wiki for that. 18:43, July 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Per Whiskey, people come here for COD stuff, not stupid blogs that have no reason at all. - Prestige10sigstb.jpg StB_Flag.jpg 18:50, July 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * TheManOfIron made a blog about "Favorite sandwich" and that is an example of dumb blogs. Ones like that should be wiped off. 18:52, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

Dumb blogs should be deleted on site. If people want to post random blogs, go on Cod Social. Doc.  Richtofen  19:04, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

My question to all of you is what is the considerable problem with blogs that requires us to delete them as we please? If it is a "non-essential" part of the wiki, then that means we should get rid of everything else that "clogs up" the recent changes, such as all the threads in the roleplay forum. While we're at it, let's also remove all the social usergroups. No one is forced to comment on blogs or even read them; the focus of the administrative team should be on more important matters such as bringing the many open War Room topics to a consensus, or closing AfDs, ect. 19:12, July 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Blogs are getting all the heat from this recent edits clog, while the forums, roleplaying and usergroups are generally unnoticed. All these social activities should go into the CodSocial Wiki LITE992 21:20, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

I'm actually getting tired of seeing the "best/worse gun in MW2/WaW/CoD4" and other blogs as such. . 19:16, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Gage, theres been more than enough of those. Any dumb blogs should be deleted on sight. 21:24, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

Blog that are not Call of Duty related whatsoever should just not appear in the first place. I think we all agree that idiotic blogs should be deleted, but say if a user repetedly post abosolutly retarded blogs all the time for no apparent reason, the should be blocked for a while. In my opinion, creating stupid blogs is just another form of vandalism. My vote be for to delete dumb blogs, and to ban users who, after warnings, still post dumb blogs. Maj. Boner 21:33, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

I agree, any who keep creating stupid blogs after maybe two warnings need to be blocked. 21:38, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

Ironically, I think deleting dumb blogs will clog up recent changes even more. In any case, I'm all in favour of restricting blogs; though this must be codified in policy. --Scottie theNerd 21:52, July 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * ideally they'll be deleted before there's a lot of responces so that the recent changes page won't be flooded with messages about each message being deleted. Darkman 4 01:18, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Forum:Halt Blogging was already up, the entire premise of starting newer, more specific War Room topics when we have open, active ones already seems like a complete waste of the time of all involved, of space, and of our previous discussions. Darthkenobi0 ^ (talk) 21:55, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

I think we should dispose of blogs. Now, I know we already have a social wiki, but I could set us up an entire forum, I'm good with those things and I could have it done by tomorrow. If blogs were to be gotten rid of, members could go to this forum for a "blogging like appeal". 01:36, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * I just wish there was a way to disable blogs period. All they've done is shit up most Wikia wikis that have them. Darkman 4 01:48, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * @Darkman4: I'm pretty sure there is. You'd have to contact Joeyaa about that. 01:50, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

I like the idea, there's too many dumb blogs and not enough mainspace being edited. -- 06:09, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

I think that we should have some restrictions, but honestly, Until we get more info on Black Ops, Our mainspace is pretty good, exception of the Stub articles Mau5killer 06:41, July 12, 2010 (UTC)Mau5killer

I am 200% (Two-hundred) supporting this. After the "shit-storm" has passed, some people thought the following: "the admins learned their lessons. YAY WE CAN GO BLOGGING AGAIN!", which is what made Blogging "rise to the top". I completely agree. Blogs like "z0mg wut sandvich iz ur favorite OMG I MISSPELLED SANDWICH HAHAHA" or "z0mg i am such a n00b u can ask me anathing" etc. are COMPLETELY off-topic, and makes users not edit mainspace so often, because while the senior users "do all the work", they are like "OMG LETS MAKE TEM DO ALL ZE WORKZ SO WE CAN PAAAAARTY!". That is my opinion, those are not facts.  Commander W567123daniel Wanna Talk? 07:54, July 12, 2010 (UTC)
 * Senior users aren't obligated to do all the work. Being around longer and having a bigger number on the topright of your userpage does not mean you kick off anyone who does less than you. If you don't want to contribute as much, you don't have to. --Scottie theNerd 19:09, July 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * While I completely agree that contributing is not mandatory, I always thought that users created an account so they could contribute under a username. At least that's what I did when I created my account. I'm not in favor of completely halting blogs - no - that would be very detrimental to user's freedom (which I personally think is a load of bull - I never blogged seriously until maybe November of last year, and I felt perfectly free before that), which is something we aim to give as much as possible. The problem this forum is trying to address are these absolutely pointless and stupid blogs such as "Ask a redneck" or "I have no girlfriend help pl0x". 00:10, July 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * It really sounds more like a forum issue than a blog problem. They're typically fine as forum topics; but rather pointless as blogs. However, that's how a lot of young bloggers start out, and I'm not one to tell people how they should blog. --Scottie theNerd 07:04, July 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * And that's why this was created. 07:14, July 13, 2010 (UTC)

There will always be dumb blogs, just how there are bad edits and vandals. We can't stop the latter two, and we don't seem to complain about them as much. Point is, what makes them any different? Blogs will be blogs. Bad edits will be made and fixed. Vandals will do their crap which will be reverted. I don't really care for blogs, but we shouldn't be so mean towards the bloggers. They're editors of this wiki, like all other users. They spend their free time blogging with other users, so what? LITE992 03:47, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, yay! The 200-millionth "BLOGS ARE GAY I HAVE THE RIGHT TO OVERRIDE PEOPLE'S BASIC RIGHTS BY GETTING RID OF THEM" discussion started. Funny, these things that are trying to get rid of loosely defined frivolity...are becoming blogs themselves. Hell yes it's admin power abuse. It's censorship. 06:01, July 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not Censorship, it's "Getting rid of shit we don't need to make the wiki better". Also, support. Mmm, Crispy...
 * Theres a lot of things we don't need but keep, so why should blogging be an exception? "We don't need it" isn't a legitimate reason, and truth be told, it won't make the wiki any better, the members that just blog will probably leave, instead of making mainspace edits like you are all trying to make them do, which leaves us with the same amount of mainspace editors as we had before. All in all, I don't think there will be much of a difference in the end, so why take the pointless step? 19:09, July 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * @Dark Anomaly - Wow, what a powerful statement to make. It must take a lot of guts to say something so absolutely incorrect. Tell me, how is keeping somebody from saying something, or covering up something they said by deleting their statements, not the very definition of censorship? Hm? tell me. Oh, I am SO interested in hearing how I'm the one who's wrong (P.S. SkullRod makes a good point above, they probably would just leave). 03:55, July 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ari, websites aren't supposed to be some bastion of free speech or whatever. While Wikia may be based in America, we aren't some libertarian paradise that accepts the US Constitution as the rule of the land; we have many users from Europe and South American countries, where the US Constitution doesn't affect them. Therefore, we can do whatever we like regarding stuff like "freedom of speech" or w/e. Darkman 4 19:02, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * But isn't restricting a users freedom of speach an act of Dictatorship, which the Call of Duty Wiki is not? Although most of the community does agree with banning blogs, a majority vote means notihing here, especially since most of the supporters don't have a real reason of why they want blogs to be banned other than "We don't like it". I don't see why you guys keep making these forum topics about blogging if you intend on banning blogs regardless of what the community thinks. <That would be a dictatorship. 19:12, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Two things. 1: Darkman, you're not listening. At all. Yeah, I get it now, Wikia doesn't have to provide for the freedom of speech. That Dark Anomaly guy was saying that imposing restrictions on what you can type in Blogs is NOT censorship, when, yes, it really is, and a definition of censorship almost doesn't get any more basic than that. Obviously, Darkman, you made an ass out you and me by assuming; you didn't even read the comment. A stupid move on anyone's part. 2: Skullrod, isn't that just a rehashing of another post of mine? I even linked to the same policy. Not judging, just curious. 05:14, July 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Might be, sorry. This is also an aristocracy. 21:12, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

One reason why we don't use CoD social is because there's no link or anything up on here that takes us to CoD social. We have to search everywhere to find it. Put up a link somewhere and we'll probably use it. Also, you need to expose CoD social to everyone by some means. Codfan 06:09, July 18, 2010 (UTC)Codfan


 * The Cod Social Wiki was created, yes, but the decision was never made that social activities would go to that wiki. Basically, it's unofficial. LITE992 13:23, July 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'd like it to become official sometime son. :s Darkman 4 18:59, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well it won't become official until the community votes to move blogs and other social activities there. I don't think this will happen, because those in favour of banning blogs have no other points to give other than "We don't like them". Well, like them or not, you're going to have to share this wiki with bloggers. You can't just send them to another place and think they'll be happy there. I know this contradicts my earliest points on the blogging discussion, but my opinion has changed. LITE992 19:51, July 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a good idea ,but first it's like a blog dictator ship. Some user write like "then i saw teh heli and i shot it with me rpg". I have examples ,but let's close that. And most of the time, The user that created the blog gets it deleted. What if I made one about dogs and someone deletes it because it's "stupid". I personally delete any of my blogs that aren't going so well. Either way this "topic" is somewhat confusing. Is it about the meaning or grammar or is it both. Coolcoolman_pic_SC.jpg 2nd Lt.  BravoAlphaSix  20:22, July 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Good ideas wikians. BravoFiveNineSig...jpg 20:34, July 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * I hate blogs that are not thought out or lack in punctuation or grammar. B5-9BN.jpgB5-9BH.jpgB5-9BT.jpgB5-9BE.jpgB5-9UL.jpg 21:14, July 26, 2010 (UTC)