User blog:Salubri/Should Blogs be done away with and Should Forums be repurposed.

I recently walked through the Narutopedia's discussion on the coming skin change and they mentioned something that I wasn't aware of. Im not a member there so I wasn't in the know on this but apparently that site doesn't use blogs because they feel that it promotes a more fan based criteria on the site rather then the encyclopedia criteria they are looking for. Im somewhat conflicted on my thoughts here. On one side I do enjoy commenting when Godisme and Lia make blogs cause they are usually pretty decent and I have been known to make one from time to time myself. Though I have noticed the downside of them as well, there are contributors that make blogs that are largely pointless and not about bleach at all. Tried to make fan fiction material and then theres a noticeable increase of users that misconstrue facts or have a general lack of content in the series and state opinions as facts, further spreading misinformation whether it be toward themselves or others. General note everyone is entitled to their opinion but where is the line drawn in the face of facts from the series. I for one don't find it necessary to have to correct people but the amount of misinformation is startling. Also the blogs seem to promote more user opinion (which is the point of a blog) over the information from the series. Prime example A person can talk for ever for why they think Gin's wanting to make right on Rangiku absolves him, doesn't make it anymore true in the story though and then if the actual material is important a discussion on it would be better then hearing someone's baseless opinion about stuff that isn't presented in the material. So Should the blogs be scrapped? Pros and Cons.

Then there are the Forums. What are their purpose well they are separated for the points they are under. Largely becoming unused unless we have to force a talk page conversation there for any number of reasons mostly because people assume their personal opinion should overshadow the material. They should take a larger role here just as they previously did.

The question here is what form of site are we. Tinni recently did a blog post referring to moving where she explains the many types of editors that could take control if we left. The question is are some of them right? Like what would make the site more legitimate in the area of being an encyclopedia on bleach?