Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20141227162737/@comment-25309944-20141227230507

Technobliterator wrote: I must inform you that being a community is by absolutely no means unique to SporeWiki. Most wikis with IRC channels such as ours end up becoming close friends beyond wiki work. We are no exception to this rule. I must also inform you that blogs do not help with that "community" aspect, and lack of blogs does not deter from it. No argument here, but if that last sentence is true, why care about it at all? Why remove it if it's not hurting anyone?

Technobliterator wrote: While I do respectfully understand your desire to keep the wiki open and free in its ability to allow the wiki to continue to be a community, I do feel the need to re-iterate that the removal of blogspace will not hurt that ability. The ability to reply to a comment directly is actually unnecessary. As I am proving now, I can reply to multiple people making a single edit. I would have to make multiple different edits and have the conversation go all over the place were I to reply to you all individually. Honestly, the fact that they encourage different kinds of communication is actually one of their strengths, in my opinion. All of this, I am afraid, is a matter of preference and opinion. You enjoy the functionality of the threads more, and I respect that. That does not make them objectively better for everyone. After having weighed the strengths and weaknesses of both, I personally like blogs better, but that doesn't mean I'm going to force my preference on anyone else.

Technobliterator wrote: I am not doing this to hurt your ability to communicate or enjoy the wiki, I am doing this to improve the overall community and editing habits of it. I am sure you will find blogs will not hurt your communication and you can instead use user subpages just as easily. Again, this is a matter of opinion. Subpages will not have the same wiki-wide publicity, and in answering your response to Tek, it took me a long time to figure out that there was such a thing as recent changes. When I was a new user, I got most of my news through blogs, and even today, blogs are more visible than small entries in recent changes which I can easily overlook.