Blog How do YOU set up your Blogs and Categories?

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How do you set up your blogs and specifically, the categories for the members?
How many Categories do you have?
Do you allow your members to add their own Categories?

When vb4 came out, we really had no logical layout concept on setting up the Blogs. They have them disabled for us here (unless I'm missing something?) I've never had a clear example on how to build a public blog system. At first, I thought they were redundant when you already had a forum. Now, I see them as a great addition to the community. Blogs give a more personal attachment to your community. I really love vb4 and where its going.

That being said,

As admin, I created about 30 categories for the members blogs. Looking at the main Blog page now, I see this really long sidebar of all my categories. I'm now thinking, I should erase them and let the members create there own. But my question is, if I do erase those categories, do they erase the members blogs?

How does it work (appear on the sidebar) when the members create their own Categories? Does it organize neatly?

Right now I have registered members ability to create their own categories, disabled.

How do you do set up your blogs? What are the best ideas? __DEFINE_LIKE_SHARE__