Excuse me, as I'm about to be extremely blunt since I'm recovering from a seizure-- it's a side effect. As I write this, three of the recced diaries are about the accidental banning of some cat woman, two are picture diaries, one purely fluff and one is a cross-post from another site.
That is the content I'd directly call out. Some of the rest of it is dubious, but could help support a first rate site.
What am I saying? I'm asking a question: What is the purpose of the general rec list? Is it for the betterment of the site or the entertainment of the people who read the site? As it is, I'd call it a cesspool which embarrasses the site and, in my personal opinion, keeps me taking a lot of the opinions expressed here seriously because they degrade into silly meta or go off an inane tangents... such as this.
Since the site is self moderated, it could be argued that the creator of the site wants a site that focuses on politics and cats... But that's like wanting a to gather a group of people based on weight-loss and aspergers. Sure, people with aspergers can lose weight and some over-weight people who want to lose weight might need support for aspergers but they're not exactly the kind of thing you stream-line into one support-group activity(trust me).
This is an important question to answer, at least to me, because I have a fairly pressing need for political support at the moment-- if only for reassuring-- I hate politics and much as it embarrasses me to admit it(and it shouldn't, which is the problem), this is the only place I can ask political questions as no one I know personally pays any mind to politics.
My point is this; the last time I bought this up, I was literally told to shut up and that nobody here care about my problems. It was the first time someone hide-rated me, I think,(I should look up and link). I was being rude to someone else with, honestly, trivial problems compared to me and I dared to not be what I've seen called "Internet Lady Nice" about it. I think it was during Health Care Reform and I asked for assurance that nothing about my Disability would change; even though I probably knew more about it than the people I was asking... Well, as I said, the result was my first hide-rate and the realization that for people who supposedly pay close attention to politics, a lot of people here are terrible at reading between lines.
So, here I am postictal, finally together enough to a bit back to normal and I think 'hey, why don't I check what's going on in politics'. Well, unfortunately we live in a dystopian paradise where the news utterly useless for news. So I have to go to the underground... Only to find them talking about cats...
Now if you'll excuse me, I think my mania is wearing off and depression is setting in...
UPDATE: This has probably already gotten most of the views it'll get but on the off chance you happen upon it and wonder WTF: I really didn't/don't expect this to be/have been taken seriously, since I know what meta people are like-- and they're nice people, generally, but they just annoy me so much! :)
The only reason I wrote this-- and I should have mentioned this in the diary itself, maybe-- is I came here in less than a whimsical mood to find most of the recced diaries to be about whimsical off-topic meta... It just annoyed me and it still does, because I have no where else to go for political news that vaguely matches my politics.
I view this to be a real problem and still do and I am at a complete loss as to what to do about it. As, honestly, this is not the type of place you should be learning news from...