Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24963361-20141106040433/@comment-1515612-20141106052018

The reason we have the blog rules they way there are now goes back to the target user base of the series: middle schoolers and specifically 12 year olds. So you get a lot of random blogs that have nothing to do with the series and also 2039480384 HIIIIIII blogs and just about every other moronic thing ever. In 2011, most of the things were over run with blogs and blogs comments. Editing was not even happening at the time. In caused a huge entire uproar when an old b-crat pointed out many different flaws of this wiki and then prompted the Blog policy to start.

Examples of blogs before blog rules: Oh, so, sad.

The whole point of of the "discussion" or "expectations" blogs is because then there are literally 20938402938403298403840238423 different people posting about how super awesome they thought the book was and how they all thought it ended or what do you think it's going to be about? So like the point is to condense it. Examples: This, [http://camphalfblood.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Srob54m/The_Lost_Hero!! this], this, look another one, you thought it was over.

Also, it's to get rid of the over asked questions of the world... Aka WHo's YOUR favorite character????, What's YOUR favorite book?, and the best one that I do not have an example of "who's YOUR godly parent????".

Another thing is going through our blogs list it doesn't look too bad in the past, but if you notice you can't really find blogs past 2011 for a reason... They were all deleted. There were literally over 100's of just pointless things.

The reason there is a request system is so people don't get butt-hurt about "why does he not get a warning and I don't" and also you learn the policy in the long run so you don't get butt-hurt over about a blog being deleted later.

But mainly I think you had to see the problem back then for you to realize how much it sucked back then when this wiki was just over run by blogs. It's for a sense of order since this wiki used to be an absolute hot mess.