About The Blog Story
An independent blog with many writers — every piece credited to whoever wrote it, and open to read without an account.
The Blog Story is an independent blog with many writers. People publish articles and essays here, each piece credited to whoever wrote it, and anyone can read them — no account needed, and no paywall.
It exists for a plain reason: writing worth reading is harder to find than it should be, and a great deal of what a reader lands on now is built for something other than being read. This site is put together the other way round — a clean reading column, the writer's name at the top of it, and the work given room.
You only need an account to publish, or to save something to read later. Reading stays open to everyone, including people who never sign up.
The Blog Story is owned and operated by the publisher below, who is responsible for the site, for the policies on it and for the decisions taken under them — including what gets published, restricted or removed.
What the site aims at is narrow and not easy: original writing that repays the time it takes to read — something explained, something reported, something genuinely thought through.
Anyone can create a free account and submit work here, which is deliberate — the range of what appears on the site comes from the range of people writing it. Every blog is reviewed by an administrator before it is published, but responsibility for an article still sits squarely with the person who wrote it.
These apply to the writing itself and to everything around it — titles, excerpts, tags, categories and images.
Write your own work, and leave the reader with something they did not have before.
Say where a claim comes from. When something turns out to be wrong, correct it or take it down.
Plain structure, honest headings, and no padding added to reach a length.
Writers submit their work, and an administrator reviews every new blog — and every change to one that is already published — before it becomes visible on the site. This is what happens.
All new blogs and updates are reviewed by the Admin before they become live. A writer submits a post for review, and it is published only once an administrator approves it.
Changes to an already published blog are reviewed before they replace the currently live version. Until then readers keep seeing the approved version, and a rejection comes with feedback the writer can act on.
Anything a reader reports goes to a moderation queue and is read by a person. Whoever reported it is told what happened to it.
We would far rather hear it than not. Write to the site administration about any of the following and it reaches the people who can act on it.
Each one describes the platform as it actually behaves.
Publishing is free and open to everyone, and every blog is reviewed by an administrator before it goes live. The Community Guidelines are worth reading first.
Create an accountCopied or lightly reworded work is removed. Quote what you need, attribute it, and link to the source rather than reproducing it.
Titles, excerpts, images and tags have to match what the article actually says.
Bulk or repetitive publishing, link stuffing, and content produced to rank rather than to be read are all treated as spam.
An article may not exist chiefly to place a link, and paid or sponsored links must not pass ranking credit.
Sponsored, affiliate or otherwise paid content has to say so plainly in the post, and follows the same link rules as everything else.
A post carries advertising only after an administrator has approved it for that, and a rejection comes with a reason the writer can act on.
Moderation and administrative actions are written to an append-only audit log, and aggregate figures are published in the transparency report. Decisions can be appealed, and a person reviews the appeal and records the outcome.
The contact page is the fastest route, and it gives you a reference number for the message. To report a post or comment without an account, use the report form.