Forum:Restricting the Creation of User blogs for Users?

Hm, it has come to my conclusion that I'd like to restrict my users in my wiki for creating blog posts. There is a lot of unproductive things the blog posts from users have done for my wiki, like:


 * Produce nonsense fanfictions.
 * Create blogs that are most likely to be a flame/troll bait.
 * Spam
 * Become what Ninety Percent of the Recent Activity in the wiki.

There was this one blog that caused confusion among other websites, and thought that the information in that blog was official, when it is obviously fake all along.I wouldn't like them to be restricted to User blog comments, but just for them to create blog posts. My fellow staff team are against me, as they have thought that it would be against their freedom to post, but then I'm aiming for productivity, not a waste of bandwidth for Wikia. Is there any way I can restrict them? Mckrongs 11:23, March 29, 2011 (UTC)

Sadly, the only way is to delete the posts. Mr. Grille  (talk page) 11:27, March 29, 2011 (UTC)

I have done that the last time, but then I receive a lot of complains and rants about me deleting blog posts. If only there was a Blog policy that I can copy or something.. Mckrongs 11:36, March 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * You can ask Wikia if the blog posts are a core feature or an optional one. If it's optional then you can ask for disabling it and/or make your own wiki policies regarding the blogs. Deleting blogs without prior notice or a discussion is not something I would recommend though. Sovq 13:44, March 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty sure they can be disabled, but that's probably just going to get you flamed more. You really don't have any easy way out of this.