Top Comments: Corrections Edition

Yesterday, I published a diary on the most prolific Daily Kos commenters. It was filled with statistics garnered from Search and I checked close to two hundred likely names, mining past diaries on the subject, before getting my list of 30.

It wasn't enough. I failed to check one list of names, and consequently omitted two commenters, one of whom identified himself and another I found on my own after I dug into my files to determine why I hadn't checked the first guy.

I published a series of updates, three in all, correcting the record as I discovered my errors. It's what we do on Daily Kos. Accuracy, and truth, matter here.

This is one of many things the netroots has right: it matters that the facts are true, that accuracy counts, that corrections are made if a mistake has been. You see it here on Daily Kos, you see it on Talking Points Memo, you see it most places in the liberal blogosphere. When someone makes a mistake, they feel a responsibility to set the record straight even if it makes them look foolish.

The strikeout is a badge of honor, because it doesn't hide the fact that an error was made—it shows what the mistake was and what the truth really is. This is important information: it gives the reader an opportunity to see the inaccurate information, register that it's invalid, and also note what's correct. The contradiction is important; otherwise, the inaccuracy is more likely to linger as a "fact" in the brain, because even if the precise source isn't remembered, the impression that it came from a trusted source may well do so.

Corrections to the public record are always important. I'm proud to be a part of a community that has this as one of its cornerstones.

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Another cornerstone of the Daily Kos community is the comments written by its members—over twenty-three thousand in the past twenty-four hours. There were excellent examples to be found, so you can check out nominations from those of your fellow Kossacks who were around to read them in the past 24 hours.

If you saw any great comments that are not mentioned here, please link to them in your own comments below. The address of that mailbox:

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Anyone can submit deserving comments to our address—the direct link to a comment is available from that comment's date/time—as long as they arrive by 9:30pm Eastern Time. Please always include your Daily Kos user name in the body of your message, so we can credit you properly. Both link and username are important.

earicicle submitted the following nomination:

In BarbinMD's FP post, Jonathan Chait wants to have a beer with John McCain, joemcginissjr rips MSM pundits a well-deserved new one.

From OrangeClouds115:

I just love this one by Sun Dog in navajo's diary My NetrootsNation08 Recap EXTREMELY PHOTO HEAVY!!

Indie Tarheel sent:

From mouser68's diary Night Before Senator Obama Leaves Condi Rice Bars Embassies from Aiding Travel, I give props to Olds88 for this reality-bending gem.

From noweasels:

As usual, Dallasdoc makes three salient points in not many more words.

David Kroning and earicicle on the "hottness" of Vermonters.

Yeah, it's from yesterday, but with all the terrific NN photoblogs today, what anotherCt Dem had to say rings true.

Uh-oh! bink goes all sock-puppetry on us, and droogie6655321 doesn't have one . . . or does he?

From your diarist sardonyx:

In thereisnospoon's diary They've Officially Moved from "Reconstruction" to "Occupation", k9disc compliments the author using the wrong name, and DoLooper, downthread, helpfully sorts things out.

In her diary Does Senator Obama Support The Arts?, xysea comments on why she's excited that Obama wants to restore public school funding for music and arts. In addition, Paul Werner notes that this country needs a National Arts Policy.

This image posted by logsol hit my funny bone just right. Also in the same diary, Yoshimi's one-liner is nominated by yojimbo for Top Meme.

arodb writes about My Friend the Marine.

Today's top mojo—those comments which have received the highest number of recommendations from Daily Kos users like you—as supplied by sardonyx, using his own revision of the amazing cskendrick's mojo-to-Excel magic.

First, Top Mojo excluding search-identifiable tip jars, first diary comments, and Cheers and Jeers:

  1) We don't need to act like them by skywaker9 — 224
  2) Alright, I'll rephrase that... by Ken in MN — 191
  3) And the body language in by Granny Doc — 178
  4) They're headed to the early-bird special by chicago minx — 152
  5) Would that this shocked me by skywaker9 — 148
  6) Al-Maliki by paul94611 — 138
  7) They ought to remember... by Ken in MN — 135
  8) Yes. One dose of The Hague. by BA BarackUS — 121
  9) Love the pics of Obama in the helicopter! by Muzikal203 — 119
10) He is a senator and the presumptive by TomP — 118
11) Any system is ignorable by LithiumCola — 109
12) Want to bet? by DraftChickenHawks — 108
13) I think they made things worse for themselves by jenontheshore — 107
14) You know what I like..... by Cronesense — 104
15) Old man by logsol — 104
16) Watching the coverage by casperr — 102
17) Let's make sure it's not. by kath25 — 100
18) Dude is comfortable in is skin man.... by rapcetera — 98
19) Bush Sr. has read McCain's bucket list. nt by SteamPunkX — 98
20) We HIRED The "Terrorists" by bernardpliers — 97
21) um by FleetAdmiralJ — 92
22) Hagel would be an ideal Sec. of the VA. by kath25 — 89
23) Richard Holbrooke weighs in by Kitty — 86
24) Yes by enough already — 86
25) This is criminal child endangerment by police by FishOutofWater — 83
26) Driving Mr. Daisy? by BA BarackUS — 82
27) After watching the interview by DJShay — 81
28) Jeez.....Barack looks like he could be by importer — 81
29) "You kids get off my damn lawn!" by Scarce — 80
30) They Tried this stuff before... by Flint — 79
31) Interfering with Obama's security detail by mbayrob — 79

Top Mojo with No Exclusions:

  1) Tips for a bus ticket by mouser68 — 788
  2) TIP JAR by don mikulecky — 598
  3) tip jar here by slinkerwink — 531
  4) Tips/Recs for a Sizzling Story by kubla000 — 416
  5) Dems need to attack the "SURGE WORKED" meme by balconesfault — 414
  6) TIPS for Democracy and yanking these freaks by xxdr zombiexx — 329
  7) Tip Jar! by navajo — 307
  8) This is going to be a fun week! by VirginiaDem — 299
  9) Tip Jar for Network Neutrality and Privacy by HeartlandLiberal — 248
10) Tips for time rainbows? n/t by Bob Sackamento — 248
11) We don't need to act like them by skywaker9 — 225
12) tips by thereisnospoon — 216
13) Alright, I'll rephrase that... by Ken in MN — 192
14) tips/recs by WinSmith — 188
15) Belated tip jar by GregMitch — 187
16) Looks like a good trip by Colonial82 — 184
17) And the body language in by Granny Doc — 178
18) They're headed to the early-bird special by chicago minx — 152
19) Would that this shocked me by skywaker9 — 150
20) Al-Maliki by paul94611 — 138
21) Peace... by JeffLieber — 137
22) They ought to remember... by Ken in MN — 136
23) Yes. One dose of The Hague. by BA BarackUS — 121
24) Love the pics of Obama in the helicopter! by Muzikal203 — 119
25) He is a senator and the presumptive by TomP — 118
26) Good report - well worth a rec! by Randall Sherman — 115
27) Any system is ignorable by LithiumCola — 109
28) Want to bet? by DraftChickenHawks — 108
29) I think they made things worse for themselves by jenontheshore — 107
30) You know what I like..... by Cronesense — 104
31) Old man by logsol — 104

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