[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 11 months ago]

I think it’s less chicken/egg and more apples/oranges.

Different people like blogs than like forums, and topics in blogs rarely are formatted in the way you would for a forum. Your mileage may vary, of course, but a beautifully crafted blog post, in my experience, is a tl;dr post on a forum. Not to mention the SEO implications