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So, I saw a post by OverwatchCNC recently, he was showing an argument on his blog

I noticed the he felt the need to say this:

 OverwatchCNC wrote:
This is not a shameless plug for my site, I generate no revenue from C&C as there are no ads on it. It is simply a forum for me to write and express my thoughts on gaming. That being said I will paraphrase for those who still don't wish to leave dakka to visit my blog.

I kinda felt that it would make sense, with this kind of thinking in mind, if we had an extra sub-forum. The appropriately named "Dakka Associated Press"

This would allow users to safely ignore Blogposts if they so desire (because they're such a drain on society), or find them in one concentrated place.

This could also just be incorporated into N&R, but I think it'd do better as a separate page, because it isn't really about general wargaming, painting, upcoming events or anything technical.

Thoughts, I suppose?

Methinks it would be too much work for not a lot of gain.

Would it be a lot of work though? How much work is implementing an extra subforum?

I think it would be better to simply copy the content onto Dakka and then include a link to said blog, on a per-article basis.

I don't agree with that though.

A blog doesn't work the same way and while you could copy text, to get the images across you'd have to implement them as pictures.

Also, as blog users don't really want to produce things as threads, otherwise we would produce them as threads and we wouldn't bother with blogs.

And the people interested in reading blogs are doing so, instead of Dakka Dakka, and the people reading Dakka Dakka aren't reading blogs... I think crosslinking them is the best of both worlds.

Create a post, copy and paste a paragraph of intro text, copy and paste the URL from one of the images in the post, and voila: no extra work for the blogger, the Dakkaroo can see if they want to follow the link, and the blogger gets ad revenue, if set up that way. Everyone's a winner.

Why would creating a separate slum for blog posts work out better? What would be in these posts; just a single hyperlink? Perhaps I just don't understand your idea.

A hyperlink and a simple description of what it intends to do. Kind of how articles work at the moment, only user-posted.

Well that's the way they should be doing it. A brief intro, maybe a picture or so then finally the link. If they're just starting a thread that says "check out my blog [link]" it's pretty much just spam.

The issue with having a separate sub-forum just for them then is it'd be too general, there'd be rumours, news, painting, tactics, battle reps, etc all mixed together in there. To fix that it'd need its own separate sub-forums. Thus, the easiest way would be to not implement it and report any posts that lack content and contain nothing but a link as spam. Even the bots put more effort into their posts than some of the blog ones I've seen,