User blog comment:Emitewiki2/Should this be?/@comment-3060206-20120904172336

"Just taking up space?" I haven't a clue what you mean. If you mean that they slow down the servers that run this site: no, not by a significant difference. The only pages that really slow down server performance are exceptionally long pages and ones with large images on them, which shouldn't be an issue considering there is a size limit for how big an image you can upload.

If, on the other hand, you mean that they flood recent changes, you can always filter out the User blog: and User blog comment: namespaces.

Blogs, in some ways, can be used to help out a Wiki (Wiki announcements and such), but they are also used by our fellow users for social activities, and the community responds quite vibrantly to these posts.

Perhaps you should consider proposing to disable blog posts on this Wiki if you feel they are a problem. Putting up a limit becomes difficult and time-consuming to monitor, and we risk multiple users who "game the system". A work-around to that is to either have blogs on this Wiki or not.

Just keep in mind that if we disable blogs, all social activity most likely will move to our Fanfiction Wiki, as with the case of personal images. The problem is, do we want to promote the Fanfiction Wiki as a social gathering for Nitromians? It is a place where users can upload their fanart, but some users have used it as their social landmark, uploading whatever they think onto the Wiki.