I have been looking at some of the blogs lately that are being posted, mostly by the newbies, that are really just thread subjects. so i was wondering if it would be useful to define what a blog is to the poster prior to the post being made? this might help user to better define their requirement and sucess of the replies to their post. is it possible to have a text box come up that says some thing like" a blog is a post that can be linked to other posts to form a story. if you are posing a specific question, please use the thread column as this will likely produce a better result for your question" something like that or similar; so it defines what a blog is and redirects them to a better place to use.
+1 Richard. I watch the home screen for new blogs. It's started to become irrelevant to me when most of them have become support questions.