User blog comment:BluGo/Polls for featured games!/@comment-5216056-20140409111453/@comment-1455034-20140409145101

@Klemen702: Do you really have to be so hostile to new users? He's not on for at least a week and you are already telling him not to "spam blog posts". First off, he isn't spamming blog posts, he's just creating another blog post a day after his second blog post.

There isn't any problem with this, and it isn't spam. Spam would be if a user consistently makes blog posts for no purpose. If they have a purpose, then they aren't spam. Blugo's blog posts have purpose. Apparently, your definition of "spamming" is creating a new blog post ever day for more than 2 days.

Personally, I have done the exact same thing as Blugo. If I created a blog post every day, would you comment on the third day on my third blog post and tell me to "NOT spam blog posts?Atleast edit the old blog posts. "?

If Blugo was in fact spamming blog posts by creating multiple blog posts per day and these blog posts had no purpose, then yes, he would be spamming. However, if you were to tell him to stop, you definitely wouldn't do it in a blog comment, you would send him a proper message on his talk page explaining him what spamming is and how what he is doing is spamming and kindly telling him to stop doing it.

Leaving a short comment telling him not to do it while suggesting he go edit his previous blog post comes across as aggressive. Also, remember he's a new user who hasn't even been on for a week. For new users, we give them some grace. We don't treat them as though they are users who have been editing for 6 months and who are knowledgeable with Wiki policy.

When they do something wrong, we kindly tell them what they have done wrong and try to mend the situation. Acting hostile to them early on projects a negative picture of the Nitrome Wiki, portraying its community as harsh and legalistic (which it isn't). Furthermore, casting a negative picture of the Nitrome Wiki could potentially harm the Nitrome Wiki and users may share this experience on Nitrome.com, which could cast a negative picture of the Nitrome Wiki even before people have encountered it.

The reason you brought up for people not spamming blog posts - new users not able to find content - is usually remedied by people going to the game's page and going to the bottom navigational template. However, this template often doesn't appear until I come on to the wiki. Although the user may scroll down Wiki activity to find the new page, and not find it, they could alternatively click "see all activity" at the top of the recent wiki activity, which will take them to Special:RecentChanges, where they will likely see the page's name.

Also, rarely do people here create blogs, and even rarer blogs created in consecutive days.

So, in short, new users who create blogs should not be told they can't create blogs, as they are new users. If they do spam, then they should be sent a kind message on their talk page explaining to them what spamming is, how what they are doing is spamming, and kindly told to stop.

Also, the reason you raised about users not being able to find content based on Recent Wiki Activity content, I never thought of this before. Thanks for highlighting it, as this is another reason why Recent Wiki Activity is counter-productive and harmful to a Wiki's growth, and why Recent Wiki Activity should be permanently removed.