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Enough About The Recommended List
I'm seeing way too much talk about posts not making the recommended list lately. To some degree the concerns have merit, as the rec list means more eyes seeing what you have to say. I understand that motivation and I respect it as a natural desire. But I'm starting to wonder if people haven't reached a point where their motivation is more about getting on the rec list than it is about fostering an exchange of ideas that will be productive, challenging, or informative. In other words, in our collective desire to reach the rec list, are we not diluting the very thing which should make a post more likely to be recommended in the best possible circumstances? Just food for thought.
Please don't recommend this post. I'm just getting this off my chest. It seems like some of the very best reader-bloggers this site has to offer are the ones most concerned about the rec list. I might be wrong about that and I hope I am. I just have faith that eventually and more often than not, the cream tends to rise...
Comments (4)
It wouldn't be such an issue if posts weren't so hard to find once they fall off the front page. I hope for a return of the tracker function, and links to replies to our comments on user profile pages so that conversations can be continued after a post disappears from the front-page lists.
April 18, 2008 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen to that.
I've also noticed that 4 people have recommended this even after being asked not to recommend it. I was wondering if that would happen…
April 18, 2008 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your points are valid...
Quite often you will see the blogs that attempt humor (and there are few here I find truly "funny", most are rather obvious) rise up the list bouncing off posts that have genuine content.
But, as with the POTUS, on TPM we get the boards that we deserve.
April 18, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just wish that the reader posts proper page could hold more than a dozen articles. They all seem to go into archive oblivion pretty quickly.
April 18, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
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