User blog comment:Najevi/My wish list for blogs at Wikia/@comment-473563-20091105213907

(typos left as entered to illustrate shortcoming of no preview feature)

In the absence of a preview for blog comments I have resorted to writing any detailed comment as a personal blog first. This way I can preview and edit to get it judt right before "publishing". Whilst I realize that I could then copy and paste this into the comment box under the target blog I am currently content with "transcluding" it instead. This affords me the option of adding to the log later on if another idea comes to mind and having that propagate (albeit silently) to the comment post at whatever blog I had been originally responding to.

I am sure that someone will point out a shortcoming of this approach but the way I see it is the staff at Wikia have chosen to abandon the traditional forum as a method for communicating with the contributor base. Comments left at the forum show little sign of being acknowledged so I am using the blog tool in an "eat your own dog food" style of counter response.

For a brief comment (like this one) that uses little or no wiki markup I will enter it directly into the comment box and click (Post comment) button.

At the back of my mind I am thinking that maybe the blog comment box is reallly designed for the WYSIalmostWYG RTE. The RTE has been put on my blacklist due to some problems it created while using it to set up a brand new wiki. Maybe in 12 months time I'll try it again but not while it is in "open-beta".

Having only engaged seriously with blogs for a week or two I realize that all my previous forum posts could just as easily been blogs as well but I wonder if, as a blog, they would ever be noticed! Only time will tell I suppose.