Journals? How has it affected your community?

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by Kathy

Does anyone have any feedback about journals within your vb? I was thinking of:

1. Making it a forum (not a stand along journal)
2. Using the simple hack that forces the thread name to be "Username's Journal"
3. Allows only one thread per user
4. Allowing this as a benefit of my paid subscribers only (I was thinking this might increase member subscribers since its a good benefit/feature)
5. Allowing ONLY the user to reply (no general comments or replies within their personal journal)

I use exactly the same system as the above, for my journal forum at my private forums, except I added a hack to make it so that the last post shows up at the top (ie. reverse order), I allow them to call it whatever they want, and it's for all members, not just paid ones.

My members love it, so I think it's worth doing.