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Is this even possible: separate rec list for candidate diaries

Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 11:39:23 AM PDT

It's pretty clear that candidate diaries are here to stay. Well, at least for another couple of months. In fact, I feel confident they'll be getting worse before they get better. So I have a suggestion; it may not be feasable, and I may be the only one interested in such a thing, but hey, you never know unless you ask.

You see, I miss the days when I would go to Dailykos, look at the Rec List, and get educated. When I would learn something about a topic I knew nothing about, or see a story here that wouldn't hit the mainstream media for another couple of days (or longer), or when I'd read something really moving, or shocking, or energizing, or inspiring.

Yes, those diaries still get up there. Some of the time. But it's not at all uncommon these days for half the diaries or more on the Rec List to be candidate diaries, often multiple diaries on the same topic.

Now, I'm not trying to suggest these diaries should go away. And I'm quite aware that diaries land on the Rec List through a very democratic process, which would clearly indicate that a lot of you are happy to see the Rec List dominated by candidate diaries.

My suggestion is simply this: if it is feasable, I think it would go a long ways towards making primary season more tolerable for those of us who are, shall we say, a bit less engaged in daily primary politics, while still allowing those conversations to continue, if we could have two rec lists: one for candidate diaries (we could come up with an appropriate tag), and one for everything else.

Maybe it's a bad idea, but seriously, I feel like there are probably a lot of wonderful diaries we're all missing right now.

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