Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20141227162737/@comment-1370845-20141227231556

I...find it incredibly hard to believe you did not know that Special:RecentChanges did not exist. It is fundamental to any wiki. If blogs are removed, I need to seriously raise the publicity for it in that case. Anyway, to respond to you.

It is not a matter of preference nor opinion. The threads are, in fact, objectively superior in that they are much better designed with MediaWiki software. That does not matter to you users, and to most of you, it is a matter of preference. However, when preference is called into question, that is when we turn to the community. And so far, the majority are voting against it, as they feel it is redundant. This means that the general personal preference of the majority is that the blogs are useless.

Also, "it's not hurting anyone" is not a reason to remove redundancy. We have to do spring cleaning, and make the wiki look neat and tidy. A simple "it doesn't harm the wiki" is often not true. By such logic, we should not delete any vandal-created page, or move any creature page created in mainspace, as afterall, they do not "harm" the wiki either. Such an attitude is absurd, it's just neatness and tidiness, and creating a clear, concise method of communication. In this case, however, as has been stated on the forum, it is hurting the editing habits of several users. At a risk of sounding condescending, not knowing that the RecentChanges exists demonstrates the detrimental effect blogs have on newer users who are not used to them existing.

Subpages have identical publicity wiki-wide. I do not see how blogs have any more publicity. Either one is a mere edit to a page.