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Originally Posted by Lutiferre

Blogs arent exactly news, its been possible to get a free blog with a relatively good URL and virtually limitless space for entries for years. I for one wasnt really "bothered"

He obviously means a new concept as in integrated with a forums board.

What's new here is that you start a blog within a community where you already discuss a variety of issues and themes, and where you already have "a potential public".

Roughly along the lines that I've discussed here: Stirpes Blogs

I just made inquiry into how administratively it will be determined who "deserves" a blog, which in turn was interpreted as deconstrutionism.

I don't think that you got the idea. It is not as simple as "deserving". This (Stirpes) is a project and it is very hard work to keep it within the limits of "acceptability". We can discuss about the exact meaning of acceptability if you want, but I assume that you already know what it means in this context.

It has been extremely hard in the past, with the discussion forums. I'm not sure if you could get an idea of what this has been, even if I told you. And though things are more or less settled now, the experience tells us that we cannot afford to be caught off guard.

With the blogs, there are a few things that change with respect to this issue, but the matter of the problem remains the same. Registration does not grant writing access to a blog. And that makes things easier. But even then, if we had to keep a constant monitorization and moderation of blogs, the workload would be excessive for us.

Be sure that whatever is achieved in a project by many in a long period of time, can be easily ruined by only a handful in a very short time.

Well, it is obvious that the measures that you need to apply to avoid this are not going to make you popular. But it has to be done.