Over the past 48 hours, there have been some especially poignant Diaries about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A number of people have provided fresh information, or summarized information in ways that provided us all with a better picture than we would otherwise have had. And we've had a few well-done, original analyses and speculative pieces about what the disaster means for New Orleans and the other areas of the Gulf Coast as well as what the response says about the current Administration.
But we've also seen a deluge of repetitive Diaries on almost every conceivable subject relating to Katrina. For instance, when I started writing this Diary, there were four Recent Diaries on my scrolling list of 50 saying FEMA had stood down from rescue operations.
I'd like to urge people to engage in some ... well, call it self-censorship. Before you post a new Diary on Katrina, cruise through the other Diaries and see if somebody else beat you to the punch. Do you REALLY have some new information to add? If you do, is it so important that it merits more than a comment in somebody else's Diary?
Please please please, for everybody's sake, don't post a Diary on something we've all read on this site two or twenty times before.