Do you think sats do much to help weed out the meh's from the oooh's on SN?

Forums remind me when I used to look for interesting things for me like Pottermore. As for a personal blog morphing into a blog, it can happen, there's the possibility but I guess it really depends on whether you have your goals and focus really clear and established and actually sticking to them. But either way, I think if the blog or forum has some refreshing and/or interesting topics and points of view, I'm on board. The thing is you really have to weed out the meh's from the oooh I'm on board. 

samhainsam

alter_native

Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web

Scoresby

Speaking as someone who wrote a blog with absolutely no traffic for five+ years, I think a forum has a lot of advantages over a personal blog. A personal blog too easily becomes a journal. While there's not anything wrong with journaling, it is a different form of writing than writing for a public audience. 