Following the lead of social democrat, and at the suggestion of many, I've begun examining comments and their rankings by collecting all the diaries from the past week after the period for recommendations closed. The resulting list of the most active diary threads is shown below. Not surprisingly, Cheers and Jeers resoundingly leads the field. Which method of ranking diaries do you or would you prefer? Take the poll. Write me a note.
[UPDATE:] I've reversed which diaries get "*" and "_" in front. Now, those appearing here but not in the list of top 100 recommended diaries get the asterisk. I've included enough diaries to ensure that 100 diaries not appearing on that list appear here.