Appearing on the Recommended List is amongst the highest (and most elusive) of honors. I should know, as I've been there several times. Most of you have never appeared on the Rec List, probably due to some inherent flaw on your part. So, to help you all out, I've compiled an easy-to-follow "How To" diary designed to--unfailingly--get you on that list.
Let's get started, failures!
Now, getting on the Recommended List during the primary war is actually a lot easier than during other, non-primary war times. This is simultaneously convenient and hideously depressing. But, as long as you don't care about manipulating the truth, inventing the "truth," or outright ignoring the truth, you can easily see your little diary up on that beloved list.
Here's how to get it done:
STEP ONE: Choose your target audience.
Only a fool (or a troll--paying attention, Barry?) would come into a massively pro-Obama blog and start bad-mouthing Obama. That's just stupid. Similarly--if you haven't been banned for disagreeing with the proprietor-- MyDD is not the best place to bad-mouth Clinton.
It's best to choose whether you hate Clinton or Obama, and then go to where that sort of hate is lauded.
STEP TWO: Don't be obviously hate-filled.
Nothing sinks a hate-diary faster than obvious hatred. Using obviously racist or misogynistic language will most likely get you banned and derided, but it will also turn your diary into a haven for pootie pics and rampant mojo abuse.
Good times.
STEP THREE: Take something a candidate said...
Wait for it....
STEP FOUR:...then write a "BREAKING!" diary that not only completely misses the point, but hideously misrepresents that point.
That last step is key. The diary I linked certainly wouldn't have made it to the Recommended List if the diarist hadn't completely misrepresented what Clinton said, but luckily, the diarist was dishonest enough to put in that extra effort to basically make shit up.
Well played.
And luckily for the diarist, this site has enough people who dislike Clinton SO MUCH that they'll automatically recommend any piece of shit diary that suggests that she did something bad.
Please go here for further review of that point.
STEP FIVE: Refuse to admit that you're wrong, no matter how obviously and forehead-slappingly wrong you actually are.
That really won't get you on the Recommend List, but as long as your going to be dishonest and manufacture outrages, you may as well be stubborn, too.
That about covers all the basics. Remember, kids: a lack of facts doesn't have to stop your diary from getting on the Recommended List as long as you stubbornly cling to the lie and misrepresentation you've created.
UPDATE: Good Lord, here's another load of shit. Conflating someone who supports the Clintons with the Clinton campaign itself.
How fucking IRONIC is it that there are two diaries on the Recommended list chastising dishonest behavior like misrepresenting what's real (mine, which is where you are, and peace voter's, which is where you should go and drop him some mojo and a rec. But then come right back here, to MY diary. MINE.), and then someone writes a dishonest piece of garbage and it rockets onto the list.
Fuck it, I give up.
UPDATE 2: icebergslim updated his diary to refelct that it wasn't the campaign but rather a union backer. Good on him. I'm not taking down my previous update (hot-headed and rude though it is) because I think that's dishonest. And because my previous point stands.
A diary that was FACTUALLY INCORRECT made it on the Rec list based on the site's rampant Clinton hate. Good on icebergslim for updating the diary, but it still speaks volumes about this site's members.