that said, I have a feeling if LL allowed this it would be harder to manage. According to what I’ve found (and don’t quote me on this, because I’m not sure how accurate it is), the Seattle Mariner blogosphere is at minimum 4 times the size of much of the rest of the country, (with a few exceptions) and I have a feeling we’d have something like 15 of those a day if we let them slide. There was a time back in 2007/2008 where FanPosts (then Diaries) were allowed to look like that, and if I recall there were something like 5 a day. Since then the number of visitors has grown dramatically, and it would easily get out of control.

Also, we have off topic posts where users can solicit opinions, so creating a FanPost here is largely unnecessary. I think it really depends on the current culture of the blog it is posted on, as well as the state of the rest of the city’s/team’s Internet presence.

That’s a philosophy.