User blog comment:Mckrongs/Wiki Matters: Blog and Blog Comments/@comment-76.69.4.113-20111205014602

Look at the Monster Hunter 3G pages and consider how much of it was a result of observations on the blogs. At the very least, the presence of a number of minions were seen on the blogs first: Furogi, Bullfango, Gagua, These were posted by users and confirmed by admins instead of resulting in edit wars.

By removing the blogs, you're basing things off the good faith that people will step in to contribute in other ways. You might end up losing user input instead. What do you lose by having the blogs? Sure, the community might not be the way you want it to be, but being a control freak won't change that.

Don't forget that forums have their own set of issues. People bickering over post count, spam, not to mention all the rules and moderation involved.