User blog comment:Salubri/Should Blogs be done away with and Should Forums be repurposed./@comment-1454424-20101001165722

I like the blogs. They give an oppertunity to show case Bleach things that we won't otherwise get to showcase. Drawing examples from my own blog: Bleach Spines, Bleach Love game trailer, Kawaii Kon 2010 A Meeting of Two Ichigos etc. These are all officially produced Bleach related material that are interesting to showcase.

Also, the forums are not used because they are terrible. It is difficult to hold a conversation, they can get big and bloated. That's why people prefer blogs.

As for being more like an encyclopedia... what does that mean exactly? And how are we not a encyclopedia?

As I was trying to figure out what you meant, I thought of the "Encyclopaedia of Arda" - which is based on the work of JRR Tolkien. As fortune would have it, this proved to a good example.

1. The Encyclopedia of Arda - An interactive guide to the works of JRR Tolkien: This is a controlled website that is not open for editing. It is clearly modelled after the "Encyclopaedia Britannica". I.e. a closed encyclopedia.

2. The Encyclopedia of Arda: It's a wikia wiki, same as us.

So here are two different versions of an encyclopaedia covering a work of fiction. As long as we are a wiki, we can't be no. 1 and I would like to know where we differ from no. 2.