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...