NEW RULE: STOP POSTING SHITTY BLOGS

Well, that's what the buzz section is. The latest blogs section is chronological instead. Right now we have both sections, so people can use whichever they prefer.

You could sort them the way forum posts are sorted, listing them based on most recent response instead of most recent OP, but then you need rules against bumping and necroposting blogs. So that's no better, don't do that. There've been enough random changes for now, anyway.

Make blogs have their own page, which would display the last 50 blogs.
Sort these blogs by upload date, then for each day sort them again by word count (but don't tell anyone this!)

There, problem covered up with a piece of ducttape.

While I applaud the effort of cleaning up idiotic blogs, I personally wouldn't mind seeing a bumping date in the game list to know which ones have been bumped recently. So many games get bumped on any given day, it's almost impossible to tell which one I might have visited recently, and which ones may have been bumped since.

At first I genuinely liked this rule, it was the step in the right direction in terms of upping site standards. But I've changed my mind since yesterday after seeing what happened to a new user joining up and uploading his game with blog on here for the first time. The blog itself was simply titled welcome and the said blog content was simply a small introduction for himself, (I guess he was too shy/lazy to post a forum introduction). Shortly afterwards the usual moderation rule of upping blog standards was being rammed right into this kids face with a few others chiming in, and then the gamepage disappeared (it was called Silent Night I believe). What I'm trying to say is that policing blogs and intimidating new users by effectively saying your blog is shit do better is perhaps a tad too heavy handed and would most likely scare people off from this site.

Honestly this wasn't even an issue in the first place. If I remember correctly it was only the one or two members going around and saying stupid stuff like "WHAAAA! ONE SENTENCE BLOGS! WHAAA!" And just harping on them in general.

I'm going to pull some stats from the I can't stand the stat rain in July topic.
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### TOTAL NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS ###
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1,030,186


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### TOTAL NUMBER OF USERS ###
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22,813

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### CONTENT COUNT ###
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game: 1765

As you see the total amount of users we have as of July 2nd is numbered at 22,813 with less than 1765 active developers (taking in consideration of multiple games from the same user) with a combined total of 1,030,186 downloads of all time. Now with regards to blog standards, would any one of those individuals who clicked the download button honestly cared about a one sentence blog at the bottom of a gamepage? Quick answer very unlikely. So this rule is effectively appeasing one or two of our members who decided this was suddenly the biggest war crime on the internet. Don't get me wrong, I'm all up for increasing site standards and better moderation, we already have an review, demo and gamepage submission queue. Having mods checking the word count on each and individual blog is just overkill. Just why are we so hard on ourselves and this site, it's starting to turn into a parody =/

Just like to add that this post is not directed at you kentona or the rest of the staff, it's aimed squarely at the small majority of members who keep on pushing for unnecessary rule changes.

It's also too bad his game was exceptionally good, exceptionally...

Wait, Silent Night is GONE?

Alterego, you did complain about it/start this up. Only you and possibly Creation were noticeably 'angered' by all of this, and while one-liner blogs are stupid, there is no reason to endlessly bicker about them.

Actually, this discussion should probably end.

So am I.

author=ae
thought this rule was "This is just your knee-jerk reaction to some kids' overreaction to criticism...

Nope, I was shocked when I read those comments, they weren't impolite nor nasty, just bewilderingly cold for a first game put out.
I've always been against this rule : just read some of those blogs, this is obviously where makers joke , laugh, confide, anything but something that should be reglemented, imo.
Can't find anything about the author of Silent Night.

It's not quite the same thing, comments normally answer the post above, the blog is adressed to all.