I guess the blogs could come in handy?

No what?

Who knows, try actually replying to a post instead of to the thread in general!

Everything having to do with the forums will be moderated. We dont need a bunch of disgusting content. You can say whatever you want, as long as it conforms to the standard forum rules, unless they make different rules.

You quoted my post, thus, you know who I was replying to :P

But your defense for blogs was the the OP can control it themselves! Darlene, you're not making much of an argument here.

Who said it'd be disgusting? I never mentioned disgusting, I simply stated the fact they will be moderated, and that kind of ruins the venting associated with blogging. Or, really, the ability for someone to speak their mind.

Given that half my posts/topics end up deleted for stupid reasons, we can't really say whatever we want.

Well, I did, but you did not quote mine so I had no clue whether you might have been refering to something else instead :\

Anyways the appeal of blogs is not to defy whatever rules you might otherwise be under, especially as you are still bound to a lot of them depending on your local jurisdiction and your hosting provider.

The appeal of blogs is to speak your mind without the threat of punishment for doing it.

"x is disgusting to Moon Goddess" is pretty much equivalent to "x will get you banned", soo...

I am going to wager that you read a bunch of ****ty blogs.

Using the ESRB rating system:

• Graal Forums = E10+ (Everyone 10 and older)
• The Lounge = T (Teen)
• My Blog (Ideally) = M (Mature)
• "Disgusting Content" = AO (Adults Only)

Just because people complain about your moderation doesn't mean they want to post "Disgusting Content", just more mature things.
That is an opinion.

If the blogs will be moderated, it should be strictly by the rules by specially appointed blog mods. Not by the forum mods who interpret the rules as they see fit and decide what is and isn't grounds for ban. Rules would need to be more defined it less vague.

That idea interests me.

No. There are plenty of instances where people get in trouble by posting stupid crap on the internet, be it by their school or prospective employers or whatever.

As I said in some dude's blog post's comments, blog posts are about being centered on an individual instead of whatever forum you are posting your thread in, and being on-topic by definition. So you are somewhat protected against the "hey, this is offtopic, I am deleting it" part of the rules, but not at all the "do not post illegal material", for whatever definition of illegal. (Even the offtopic part might not apply, this is the Graal forum and it makes sense to require a certain amount of ontopicness.)

I hardly read any blogs at all, but those that I have read a few entries from usually tend to have cursing and other things deemed 'inappropriate' by the forums, even though they are very harmless(no nasty crap or anything like that).
Whether or not I read ****ty blogs is no denial that blogs are often used for venting.