What Are Journals For? What We Can Write in Them

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Journals serve as personal spaces for expression, allowing users to write freely, including topics that may not be suitable for public forums. While there is more flexibility in blog entries, they must still adhere to community guidelines, prohibiting obscenity, hate speech, and personal attacks. Users can create private entries, which are accessible to Mentors and Admins, ensuring some level of oversight. A suggestion was made to allow users to save draft replies as private journal entries for later completion, potentially reducing clutter. This feature could enhance the journaling experience by providing a convenient way to manage unfinished thoughts.
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what they are for? and can we write whatever we want there even what we are not allowed to write in forums?
 
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It's as our guidelines state:
Blog Guidelines:
PF welcomes you to take advantage of its blog feature. We recognize that blog entries are inherently personal; accordingly, more flexibility is permitted there than would be suitable in the main forums. Nonetheless, blog entries are subject to the same overall guidelines in effect throughout PF, as appropriate. Obscenity, hate speeches, religious screeds, personal attacks on other members, and promotion of crackpottery are not welcome anywhere on PF. Be aware that "Private" blog entries are viewable by Mentors and Admin.

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Here's a journal-related idea.

While composing a reply in a thread, it might be nice to be able to [at a push of a button] temporarily save the current draft of the reply as a private entry in one's blog/journal... to be continued later.

Sometimes I start a reply, but then feel that I'm not ready to post it yet. It would be nice to conveniently save my work for later. [To cut down on possible clutter, maybe these temporary entries might be set to be deleted after (say) a week after being untouched or deleted manually.]

..just an idea.
 
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