A reminder (All bloggers please read)

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to make a quick comment on the recent proliferation of short Twitter-esque blog entries. While they're good fun, they do take up valuable real-estate on the front page, while adding virtually nothing in the manner of content. The current layout and interface for Blogs is unfortunately limited by the board software, so there isn't really a way around this other than to respect others' posts by not taking up the front page.

I for one don't want to institute any hard and fast "every post must be at least 141 characters long" rule, but I think that we can all figure out what constitutes a reasonable entry. Things here are pretty lax, so it shouldn't be tough to write something a bit lengthier than a six word post.

Anyway, I just wanted to say my bit on that. If it's been a while since you've done so, please give the Blogs Guidelines a quick read, as this is all covered in there.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled Blogs....



(please post any comments on this below in the reply section-- feedback is always welcome!)

 

Ahh I assume this is about mine yesterday.
BUT just so you know, I totally had something substantial written there that I later changed my mind about; I'm having issues deleting my blogs though, and an admin in the support forum told me to just delete all of the text while they looked into the issue. But it wouldn't let me have a blank blog so I had to write something short.
I'm sorry

 

^it not just you, we have unapproved several short posts lately. see my post in your support thread, you should be able to delete blogs.

good reminder dave

 

Oh cool, haven't checked my subscribed threads in a few days. Thanks for the heads up

 

xburton: As a_c said, it certainly wasn't just yours. If it was, we would have dealt with it privately. Because there have been quite a few lately, I decided to do a little public announcement is all.

Blogs is a bit different than the rest of the board, regarding the mechanics of the posts, which is probably why there were some difficulties. Sounds like it's resolved now though.