Don’t you -.- me you little @(^_^)@
I think Potato’s idea is starting to sound good. But, uh, this is really confusing.
Maybe blogs that are under the set limit will give a message like Potato said, but then they get sent to a moderator to be checked for content. If they’re a good blog, they will still get posted, but if they’re trash they get rejected. This way people can post even if they tried just a teeny bit, but they’re somewhat inclined to not to since they have to get a moderator to check it.
I think this whole short blog pushing down good blogs problem will go away more if there was a link to a page that showed MORE than the 10 latest blogs shown on the front page. You know, like the last link on MMOT, except this one doesn’t post every single blog that’s in a category. Maybe it can just show the latest 50-100 blogs, so even if there are a lot of short blogs going on, people can just check this link and still get enough info about the better blogs (likes, comments, views, etc. could all be viewable from this page without actually entering the blog).