I don't have strong feelings about the Front Pagers' diaries showing up in the Recent list, or even the Rec list. When the announcement was made it was kind of a "meh" for me. I did decide that since they were going to the front page, they didn't need to be rec'd. To each her own on that one, I figured.
There is one aspect to this new approach that I'm not sure how I feel about. Maybe it's just me, though. These things are very subjective. This will be short and sweet, but I'm curious about how others see this, not just because of the FP diaries, but as a little window into how we each approach diaries and commenting.
The one thing I've noted about this new practice of putting Front Pagers' diaries on the recent list is this: often when they hit the front page there are already a lot of comments.
I think I have this quirk. Maybe it's an unconscious way of filtering my time. What I've noticed about myself, is that when I come upon a diary that already has a lot of comments - I have not paid enough attention to note if there is some number in my brain - I don't join in.
There's this thought process which goes something like this:
Well, whatever I would have said has probably already been said and I don't want to have to read through all these comments to find out and I don't want to be repetitive and make it tedious for others and, well, by this time probably no one's paying attention anyway, so why bother.
And I move on.
Not that it's a big deal. I doubt my comments would have been so profound that it matters. I mean, it's just a blog, anyway. I'm not in my mother's basement, but I am often in my pj's sitting in my bed, in my converted attic space - which is quite lovely, with it's sloped ceilings, sky lights and radiant heat under the bamboo floor, which we built ourselves, thank you - and whatever I have to say here probably has about zero impact on the world - even though I wish our Witnessing Revolution diaries were getting the world to pay attention to the the torture and murder of these brave people standing up for basic civil and human rights - but, I digress. I don't harbor any grand illusions about my writing or my opinions or ideas.
Still, I have a little, I don't know, moment of sadness, that those Front Page diaries are so often already played out by the time they hit the front page. Sometimes it's nice to get in on the conversation early.
Oh well.
Anybody else have that experience?