Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-32602006-20140326042759/@comment-366087-20140326051930

Undead.exe wrote: …If you then protect that page… Which falls back under the "long-term protection" issue again.

The User_Blog namespace is a really effective way to author-protect content, Comments can be enabled/disabled, and of course can be Categoried. Also you can ask through Special:Contact for Wikia to add the namespace as a default in the Search function.

So as you can see, there are a few options!