Forum:Blogging solutions

Blogging has recently seen a large spike again, as a result of the Black Ops info coming in. While blogging is generally liked by the community, it has major flaws which are largely ignored. It seems to me that most blogs have some sort of flame war in it, which often ends badly and cannot be kept clean of spam or abusive messages. Yes, even the "OMGWTFBBQSAUCE" which seems to be spamposted on like, every blog (which, in my opinion is just annoying) is spam. There's also the problem of it spamming the Recent Changes to hell and back, which makes it harder for editors who actually want to help out to do so.

So, I give you 3 solutions:


 * 1) We disable blogging completely. This has been done on the RuneScape wiki, without any bad repercussions. They have a very strong community without blogs, so I don't see why that can't be the case here. The whole feature can be taken out without a problem.
 * 2) We make blogs admin-only. This has been done on the SpongeBob Wiki, to great effect. Any non-admins seen posting a blog will have their blog deleted and be strictly warned. Repeat offenses result in a very long block. This doesn't seem like a bad idea whatsoever, as commenting will still be allowed on these blogs.
 * 3) We restrict blogs to being CoD-related only. This isn't a social site where you come to socialize. This is a Wikia wiki, where people come for information. This will eliminate the problem of fan fiction, which shouldn't be on this wiki.

Blogs are turning this wiki from an informative database to a social site. This cannot be happening, and I urge you to think about this subject hard and ask yourself if there is any real benefit of having blogs.

Discuss below, and if you have any more solutions, feel free to post them.

Thanks. 22:15, September 10, 2010 (UTC)