Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-1207741-20140407025000

Speysider wrote: Snapper, even if blogs were enabled here, I'm sure "certain users" would try and make ridiculous rules on what they should be used for and tbh, the blogs aren't exactly the best way to discuss the series. They're good for things like timeline discussion and theories, but nothing much more than that.

I still firmly believe that the forums should be where the discussion goes, instead of constantly trying to divert it to some other feature and continuing to try and make the forums an exclusive area for wiki only discussions. I'm not saying all of the types of discussion being proposed here should be in blogs; questions and topics that conceivably have resolutions are appropriate for the forums. It's the open-ended, "worthless opinion swapping" as I put it earlier that would be blogs. This:
 * creates a neat division between discussions that will benefit the wiki's articles and discussions that will benefit the wiki's users
 * ties a user's opinion to their name, similar to what's done with theory subpages
 * avoids a flawed attempt to be choosy about what Naruto opinions are suitable to share

Speysider wrote: I have pointed out the CSS exclusion multiple times in this thread but some people simply don't want to see the supposedly annoying "background chatter" so why would they use it for blogs ? That's like saying "don't put sugar in my tea, but I don't care if it's there or not", people can't just say that they will not use a CSS exclusion for forums, but will willingly use it for blogs, it's contradictory and insulting. It isn't contradictory. The issue for those opposed is that excluding forums hides the discussions that don't interest them (new chapter opinions, speculation over future events) and the discussions that do interest them (wiki-wide changes, appeal for information). If the two categories of discussion are in separate namespaces, exclusion becomes a viable option.