A few comments.... I appreciate the feedback and believe I understand the concern being expressed.

While we did indeed close down our member blogs, anyone is welcomed to blog on any of the free services available, such as Wordpress.com. Then you can include your personal blog in your signature here, if you'd like people to keep updated about what's going on with you or your life.

We don't have any rule against these long-running threads and at this time, I'm not inclined to make a new guideline about them because I don't believe they've become a problem in terms of the number of them or what-not. If a forum became overrun with them, however, we'd likely try and work out some solution that would satisfy most.

We do ask members always to be aware of the amount they are posting, especially if they are starting multiple new threads in a single forum in one day. Such member threads should be reported so we can look at them more closely and see if a warning is warranted.

Support groups such as ours work best when people contribute to other people's threads, when they can, when they're in an emotionally good place to do so. But I can completely understand that when someone is posting the equivalent of a journal/diary thread, how that person may not get much support in such a thread because it's very different kind of content (and may be harder to reply to or offer support).

We'll keep an eye on things and again, please report any thread you feel we should look at in particular. It doesn't mean we'll do anything about it, but it does bring it to the team's attention for further discussion and possible action. Thank you!