The quality of the work done by the people on this site is astounding.
SusanG does a great service with the diary rescue feature. What I hope to do with instituting this is at least three-fold.
1. Highlight informative, funny, interesting comments that might not have been seen. Some of the best comments are posted at the end of a diary and readers might miss them because they've moved on to the next diary. Other comments might be posted in little read diaries and hence overlooked. The comments that I pick will be subjective of course. And since I don't read every comment in every diary, this is where other people will have to post links to other comments in the thread.
2. Shine a spotlight on comments that need troll-rating. This is not to open up a troll war. This is simply to help the moderation of this community. I have found with the new two-troll limit, I am engaging people more and explaining instead of just rating and moving on. However, we do get trolls and the only way to oust them and keep dialogue productive is to give them enough 0s for the autoban to kick in.
3. This might be the hardest part to implement, but I hope this diary becomes a nightly feature. And I don't want to post it every night. What I hope is that others volunteer to do it. In particular, I'm thinking the best volunteers will be those who aren't people well-known on DailyKos for diaries, but who comment often and read quite a few diaries. In other words, for those of you who have been lurking, but have been wanting to get more involved now that YearlyKos is over, this could be the perfect feature for you. I am a strong believer that DailyKos is only going to survive and thrive if new voices continue to be developed. When I was new to DailyKos and we had two diaries a day, I often used up both of my diary allotments. I was even fortunate enough to have two diaries on the recommended list at the same time a time or two. But now I limit myself (usually, last week being an exception) to two diaries a week. I have had the fortunate of getting a good number of my diaries on the recommended list and "Carnacki" is well enough known here that if I wrote more diaries, I'd probably get more on. DailyKos doesn't need that. We need to encourage and develop fresh voices.
So figure out a way in the comments, bright people, how do we come up with a rotation to do this diary nightly.
Tonight I'll post just a few because we just discussed the idea this afternoon and I haven't saved a lot of links yet. Also this first one is to help figure out the best format. Plus my wife has "plans" for me so I can't be here all night.
For example, is it best to just post a link to the comment or the entire comment? Let me know what you think in the comments below.
On to some of the best comments I saw today:
In a diary on President Bush's approval rating going up a single point despite the best week of his second term, jfern commented
Dude (6+ / 0-)
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Inky, calipygian, jamfan, Sam Loomis, Slartibartfast, zephron
The only thing that could get Bush above 45% is if in the middle of one of Bush's televised addresses Osama sneaks in and hits Bush from behind, and then Bush kills Osama with his bare hands.
In other words, not going to happen.
by jfern on Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 06:58:01 PM EDT
In a diary on a new study showing presidential candidates who talk more about the past do more successfully in elections, goose rock wrote
Well It Was Reagan Who (1+ / 0-)
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VetGrl
convinced America that the way to manage a nuclear/ information age society was with the laws and principles of the farmers' frontier.
You can't argue with that logic.
Literally.
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy....--ML King, "Beyond Vietnam"
by Gooserock on Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 06:49:35 PM EDT
In a diary on Home Depot's board, stitchmd commented:
* [new] The problems with corporate governance (14+ / 0-)
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meg, Sandy on Signal, km4, calipygian, macdust, grayslady, Catte Nappe, eve, corvo, saucy monkey, stagemom, Gorette, smokeymonkey, paul2port
run very, very deep and really hit foundationally at some things we, as a culture, hold dear.
The idea that CEOs 'earn' their money really does not have anything to do with whether or not they 'serve their stockholders.' That is simply a ruse to make it sound good. The economic model used by the people who justify this kind of inequity (and they are the ones who set the pay - but more of that in a moment) operate on the idea of a 'market of labor.' Therefore, only the top people qualify for such a job, there are a limited number of top people, and that they can therefore demand those top kinds of salaries.
That may not make a whole lot of sense, but look at it in terms of sports stars: the top free agents can demand, and usually get, whatever they want.
That is the model that the people who set CEO pay use. Conversely, the pay at the bottom is set by the other end: keep a lot of people scrambling for subsistence jobs and you don't need to pay them any kind of a moral, living wage; you only need to pay what is required to keep an adequate workforce. This is why they are so opposed to any minimum wage.
The other point is that the CEOs reinforce this kind of model; they cross-pollinate boards and move from one company to another. It's a self-perpetuating cycle, and you are right: what happened at the Home Depot meeting is merely an overt example of what the real situation is.
Lastly, on your point about stockholders: many people just simply don't pay that much attention to their annual reports and recognize their responsibility as owners of the companies. They don't send in their ballots, attend the meetings, or participate in any way other than cashing a dividend check or selling the stock.
Analogy? More people voted for American Idol than voted for president.
Great diary. Recommended.
by stitchmd on Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 07:14:35 PM EDT
Trusted users should go patrol the hidden comments. If you don't have time, here's three I recommend for additional community moderation:
Link here.
Link here.
Link here.
And per Rita in DC's suggestion, if you see comments that you think have been unfairly hidden, link to them for trusted users to decide whether they should be uprated.
Feel free to criticize or offer suggestions in the comments below.