Bring back Ande's Blog!

hi jim, happy birthday I'm not sure if I want to transition my blog thread over to the blogs using the bulk mover Would it destroy the original URL and contents or leave them intact and just move a copy? My request is to rename my blog and move it over to workouts What is the process to challenge the policy? Ande lately I've been writing my workouts in a PM I send to myself and a few others right now I'm transitioning from regular training to speed strength training but my right shoulder has started to hurt a little Well, you have to realize that this information is skewed because it relies only on those who have voluntarily linked their USMS membership to their forums account (through My USMS). Anyway, of those people with linked USMS memberships who have voted here, it's currently 26-10 in favor of the "no, leave it in the blog section" vote. BTW, in looking at this, I found a few more alias votes that I missed the first time through and have adjusted the vote total accordingly. We have released new tools that now allow any USMS member to maintain a blog on our site. Together with this release, we are requiring that all blogging take place on our site using the new blog tools. The existing blog threads have been closed after notifying the thread starters, and all have been encouraged to use the new blog tools. Suggestions have been provided for how to maintain the continuity by linking back to the old thread in the blog description. This new capability is available to all USMS members without discrimination, and the closing of old blog threads has also been uniformly applied. All forum users are allowed to post workouts in the workout section. However, if you want to maintain a blog, please do so in the blogs section. I've also just come across a tool that is supposed to allow me to migrate a particular thread from the forums over to a blog. I had looked for such a tool in the past, but was under the impression that it didn't exist. From what I can tell, it will do the conversion by copying posts of a certain user in the thread to blog posts and posts by all other users to comments in the blog. I have no idea how well this tool works, but I have just offered to Ande to run this tool on his old thread and thereby maintain all of his blog content from that thread in a new blog. I can't see any reason why this would not be an acceptable solution and I hope he agrees to allow me to run this tool on his old thread and thereby create his new blog.

hi jim, happy birthday I'm not sure if I want to transition my blog thread over to the blogs using the bulk mover Would it destroy the original URL and contents or leave them intact and just move a copy? My request is to rename my blog and move it over to workouts What is the process to challenge the policy? Ande lately I've been writing my workouts in a PM I send to myself and a few others right now I'm transitioning from regular training to speed strength training but my right shoulder has started to hurt a little Well, you have to realize that this information is skewed because it relies only on those who have voluntarily linked their USMS membership to their forums account (through My USMS). Anyway, of those people with linked USMS memberships who have voted here, it's currently 26-10 in favor of the "no, leave it in the blog section" vote. BTW, in looking at this, I found a few more alias votes that I missed the first time through and have adjusted the vote total accordingly. We have released new tools that now allow any USMS member to maintain a blog on our site. Together with this release, we are requiring that all blogging take place on our site using the new blog tools. The existing blog threads have been closed after notifying the thread starters, and all have been encouraged to use the new blog tools. Suggestions have been provided for how to maintain the continuity by linking back to the old thread in the blog description. This new capability is available to all USMS members without discrimination, and the closing of old blog threads has also been uniformly applied. All forum users are allowed to post workouts in the workout section. However, if you want to maintain a blog, please do so in the blogs section. I've also just come across a tool that is supposed to allow me to migrate a particular thread from the forums over to a blog. I had looked for such a tool in the past, but was under the impression that it didn't exist. From what I can tell, it will do the conversion by copying posts of a certain user in the thread to blog posts and posts by all other users to comments in the blog. I have no idea how well this tool works, but I have just offered to Ande to run this tool on his old thread and thereby maintain all of his blog content from that thread in a new blog. I can't see any reason why this would not be an acceptable solution and I hope he agrees to allow me to run this tool on his old thread and thereby create his new blog.