Making the Recommended List at Daily Kos is a big deal to some people. A diary on the Rec List means hundreds and possibly thousands of people will click on it and, presumably, read at least some of it.
To some other Kossacks, making the Rec List is a big meh.
I have to admit that I am one of those who writes diaries in the hopes that people will actually read them. Alas, sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.
But all of us who write diaries in hopes of having them noticed have written at least one masterpiece that rolled down the Recent List in obscurity as we watched in despair and thought (or even shouted, scaring the pootie), "That diary should have made the Rec List!"
So here's your chance to tell me why.
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If you have ever written a diary at Daily Kos, tell me you haven't said, "Dammit, my diary was topical, timely, well-sourced, and well-written. And I got six recs. That piece of shit meta dairy, 'Don't Tell Me to STFU,' has 297 recs and 1,412 comments! Jesus H. Christ on a Slip-n-Slide! What the hell's wrong with this place? What do I have to do to get on the Rec List, cut off my friggin' ear and mail it to Kos?"
Or you write the greatest snark ever ("I mean it made me ROFLMAO"), and Jeff Lieber decides to snark the same thing you did. Of course, his diary gets 399 recs and 583 hilarious comments. Yours gets two recs and three comments, two of which don't recognize it as snark (the third one is your tip jar). Lieber's, of course, is brilliant ("It's not fair. He's a professional writer, for chrissakes"), and you wind up as the 364th rec and the 532nd comment in his freakin' diary. Sigh.
And don't hand me that "Rescued" stuff. Sure, losers like me who write a diary that doesn't make the Rec List but gets rescued will say (with a supercilious sniff), "I'd rather be on the Rescued List, anyway. It's based on merit and not popularity." Sure, and Miss Congeniality didn't really want to be Miss America either.
So for all of you overlooked diary van Goghs out here in the Great Orange Beyond, here's your chance.
Tell me which one diary that you wrote absolutely, positively should have made the Rec List and why. Feel free to provide a link to same in your comment. Please limit yourself to one.
Here's mine:
How the POTUS and the Dems Saved My City
It should have made it. Here's why:
"Dammit, my diary was topical, timely, well-sourced, and well-written."
And good for Democrats, I might add.
So here's your chance. Bring out that old masterpiece and share it and tell us your sad story.
Of course, this diary will also scroll down the rec list in obscurity, so don't get too excited. However, I promise to rec every comment that lists a diary and a reason why. I might even read some of them (although none will be as good as mine).
Update: Gee, I should thank everyone for putting this diary on the Rec List. But if you think this makes up for all the other times you overlooked my brilliance, think again.