Blog Entries: Total Word Length Limitation
Hello everybody,
It is not every day that we decide to invoke new rules and policies here at ChristianBlog.Com, but today is one of those days.
Starting at the time of this Blog Entry being published, we have put into place a new "minimum blog-length limitation" concerning Blog Entries.
This new rule does not affect the maximum length of Blog Entries, as that is already defined by whether you are a Premier Member or not.
Rather this new rule affects the minimum length of Blog Entries.
A large number of our Premier Members have been sending us messages about the massive amount of "short blogs" that have been posted recently, and we behind-the-scenes have also noticed it.
As is stated within our Blog Posting Policy:
The Issue from where we are:
One of the major "issues" we knew we would be facing when we started this website was the issue of our members posting one or two line "questions", rather than multi-paragraphed "blogs". To be very honest, we were not sure how to deal with it, nor when we should start dealing with it, and, how bad it would get.
The time has been coming for many weeks now to being to deal with this issue, and as much as we could keep ignoring it, that is simply not the right thing for us to do.
Here is how we plan to initial address this issue. We have now put into place a "counter" on the first page of adding a Blog Entry. This counter will count the total number of words you have typed into your Blog Message, and return the total number of words for you. Once you have reached 150+ words, you will not have to worry about this limitation, and can continue ahead without any problems.
Limitation Exceptions:
So, are there any "exceptions" to this limitations?
At first, we had thought to ourselves, "hey, why not allow people adding (a) prayer request, or (b) introductions, or (c) poems, to not have this minimum word-count limitation?"
But the more we thought about it, the more we began to realize, 150 words (the present minimum limitation) is not all that hard to reach!
Even a simple prayer request, by explaining the situation, your specific needs, and any details concerning prayer, can easily be presented in over 150-words.
And for those posting poems, even short poems, why not share a little bit about the poem, what it means to you, and how it might apply to your life! Sure, your poem may not be 150-words, but what you share with us about your poem can easily be more than 150-words!
Some of our members like to post a Blog Entry with nothing other than a video hosted at any of the popular video-hosting websites... this will stop those folks from doing this! A simple "video-in-a-blog" just cannot be called a "blog". So, now you will have to actually share with us your thoughts about the video!! Imagine that!
So, to answer the question... no, ALL Blog Entries are to be restricted to 150-words, at minimum.
Well, there is ONE exception to this... If you are a Premier Members and utilize the IntaBlog feature (which is an amazing, premier-member-only feature,that allows you to very quickly add new blog entries without all the 'other questions' we normally ask/require). The large majority of our Premier Members already publish Blog Entries that are over 150-words in length, so we feel not even presenting them with this is necessary.
To address those who might not like this:
We do realize a number of our present members may not like this "minimum blog-length limitation" -- and really all we can say is... "Guys, how hard can it possible be to write 150-words??!!??!!".
If you really-really-really do not like this limitation, consider this: (1) become a Premier Members and (2) using our InstaBlog, and (3) voicing your opinion as a Premier Member.
We have a "Premier Members Category" setup specifically for our Premier Members to voice and address their concerns to us. Because Premier Members help pay the bills this website incurs we do give a higher level of attention to what they want and ask of us.
In Closing:
To Review all of this:
As of this moment we have implemented a "minimum blog-length limitation".
At this time the "minimum blog-length limitation" is 150-words.
We reserve the right to increase or decrease this in the future, should it be warranted and highly requested by our Premier Members and/or to help with website integrity.
This is mainly be put into place to help remind our members of our Blog Posting Policies which clearly make a distinction between a "blog entry" and a "discussion thread" (like you would see at a forums website). A Blog Entry is not the place to ask a one-line-question and expect people to just respond -- Rather a Blog Entry is a place for YOU to share what YOU BELIEVE about a given topic, and than allow others to share what THEY believe.
Thank you,
ChristianBlog.Com Support Team
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