User blog comment:Edwin Shade/These Blog Posts Need To Be Deleted From This Wiki/@comment-8-20171205234144

It's very difficult to look at these blogs posts to see what you mean, because you didn't link any of them! But I know the sort of thing you mean.

What we try to do with off-topic posts is to redirect people to a more suitable wiki. After all, if they are motivated enough to write a blog, maybe they will be motivated enough to join a wiki and contribute!

We also leave blog posts about the writer - for the first post anyway. It's better for them to get a welcome than for them to be deleted off-hand. We also often suggest another wiki they can go to as well - for example, either the blogging wiki or a general writing wiki.

Blog posts that seem to be schoolwork (and are often Spanish, for some strange reason) are deleted with an explanation on their walls. The same goes for non-English posts in general.

It's a lot of effort to do this sort of moderating for every blog post, and so it does take time. I try to visit the bloglist every day, and admins do clean-up too. But we will never be able to remove blogs that are in the wrong place instantly.

But there is a solution! You can see only on-topic and well-written blogs by going to the Community Highlights Bloglisting. These are blog posts that have been selected by staff or admins as the best of those added to the wiki. So if you follow that instead of the main listing, you will miss all the oddities that get posted