Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys View Post
I don't think it's such a bad thing...people who want to use them, do. Those who don't want to, don't. This is not a situation which needs to be remedied.

Is there any advantage to making people want to use their EoFF blogs more?

Sites like Facebook/G+/Twitter are by their nature amalgamated; you will interact with people that you know from a variety of different places. As such, they are not the appropriate place to post something that's of interest to a limited audience; as such, I mean to use my EoFF blog for things that are germane to EoFF and Facebook or G+ for more general-interest entries. Let's be honest now--if something is exclusively interesting to EoFF'ers, it can just as easily be made into a thread as a blog entry. EoFF was around for a hell of a long time before the blogs were added, and things were fine.
I'm not saying it's the end of the world because blogs aren't utilized. Certainly there's no measurable advantage of encouraging members to post in their blogs more, but it's all about activity on this site, right? Activity on the front site, activity in chat, activity on the forums - they're all useful tools for keeping this place alive and to keep people coming back here. Blogs are just another part of that, and they're here to be used.

I think more people just need to be reminded about using them through a boost of activity and that we want to see what they have to say that's not FF related or gaming business (not that those necessarily need to be excluded).