Forum:Old Blogs

For as long as I've been on this wiki, I've had a habit of commenting on blogs. Whether it's because the blog is interesting, or because we comment on every sprite comic we read, or we just want to tell the author we've read it, most of us comment on blogs. However, some Wikia Contributors, not to mention a few new(er) users tend to ignore the date the blog was published. The response they receive is usually negative, with some user replying to their comment with a blunt "Don't comment on old blogs".

Not too long ago, I went digging through closed site discussions. I found Forum:Old Blog Policy, which piqued my interest. I also found Forum:Blog policy page, in which Sacorguy79 said:
 * The discouragement of Non-Sonic blogs is already mentioned on the main Policy section, as for Old Blog commenting, it's not necessarily against the rules, though it's not something to be encouraged.

This statement seems about right, but there's a small problem with it. There is no mention of commenting on old blogs to be found anywhere on Sonic News Network:Policy. In other words, there is no policy on this.

Let's analyze what we know about commenting on old blogs, at least on the Sonic News Network: Face it, guys. In most cases, telling people not to comment on old blogs serves no purpose. Why is it considered sloppy; it's harmless (again, in most cases)! Say some contributor commented on an old sprite comic, saying that "this is awesome!". Would you tell him not to comment on old blogs? If so, why? It's harmless; there's nothing wrong commenting on old blogs. However, if there was a blog with a flame war that ended before an admin decided to lock the comments, and a contributor brings it up again,the appropriate response would be not to rebuke them, but to ignore them. If you think commenting on old blogs is sloppy, then don't comment on old blogs; you don't have to keep others from doing it, too. If anyone can refute this argument, feel free to do so, but please do not tell me something I already mentioned in this forum (for example, that commenting on old blogs is considered sloppy). I don't know if I should have made a blog about this instead, but this will do. 22:57, February 13, 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not against the rules.
 * It's discouraged because it's considered sloppy.
 * Discouraging it doesn't really do anything.