User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/A change to Blogs on Community Central/@comment-168424-20201210184205/@comment-5811199-20201211065516

We've always known about the level of spam/off topic posts, but the original concern was that these are new users who we want to keep on the platform, rather than outright prevent. We put a lot of admin effort into responding to new blogs and preventing off topic ones, like using MediaWiki:Editnotice-500 - and honestly it was soulless work (and looking back, wow, I've made 800 blog comments so far).