Blogs are no longer privy to guests
 

Blogs are no longer privy to guests, I take it?

I'll guess it must be a recent development, because I do believe it was only earlier this week I was partaking in my routine samplings from roachboy, Galileo Smith's, and Cynthetiq's blogs, when I don't care to log in and just read, yet that's now over, I'm afraid to state.

Will this be a definite moving forward, or was this always intended since day?
Were there complaints about privacy, (which when I finally took it to finding out what's so great about the blog features, then starting one up myself, I noticed that the 'guest viewership' / registered only - reading option, by default, was set to Member's Only, or something to that effect.) or did this come as a consensus staff move for the better?

Just trying to interpret a tiny fraction of the mindset towards the decision.

(does it always come across as though I'm complaining about things with the way I phrase my questions, and in bunches, or is this the over-analytical me, criticizing, who else, but me?)

I haven't had time to make an announcement about it. I changed it the other morning after some spammer thought it was a good place to continue to spam after a good row. We try very hard to give people the benefit of the doubt when it seems the could potentially not be a spammer and just want to share links. Unlike the forums where you can post a link only after 15 posts, the blog area is not as secure. It is mostly because of spammers being attracted to that space. It's harder for us to clean up with our tools and less prone to being found.

Also the idea of opening it was because Halx thought it would be a place that google picked up and we'd get more traffic from it. The analytics do not support that.

My bad. I never got around to that Baywatch Babes blog.

That's ok. It's not 1996 anymore.

It's always 1996 in fugly's pants, he never grew out of that year.

mine has always been members only, I would not like it to be accessible to guests, I'd go so far as to say I'd like to it to only be accessible to those who have been "promoted" on tfp because honestly it doesn't take much to register here.