Top Comments has been published without fail since June 14th, 2006. That is a LOT of diaries — over 5200! There have been 69 authors who’ve used the #TopComments tag (although some may have used the tag without it being an Official TC diary). We take seriously the charge to provide a place to lift up the comments that deserve a wider audience: those that make us smile, laugh, nod, marvel, and think. Over the years we’ve added in auto-generated lists of the most-highly mojo’ed comments and picture-comments.
Our current roster of active writers is much smaller than in prior years; there have been ten Top Comments authors in 2020 with a majority written by a smaller subset. We’ve been talking lately and what we discovered is… we are tired. We are stressed. We are overcommitted to many things, and most importantly… we are hyperfocused on defeating Donald Trump in November and preserving our democracy.
We are Under Pressure.
We considered halting the series. Signing off. Going dark. No rounding up someone to write a novel diary in between phone banking, work, family responsibilities, self-care, and trying to survive Jumanji 2020. A number of our diarists need to take breaks to focus on the world outside Online, and we wholeheartedly support them in that.
But… as I said earlier, we take our role here at Daily Kos seriously. The idea that someone could find a comment and send it in and… nothing, gutted us.
Something needed to change, and tonight… my 783rd diary bearing the #TopComments tag since 9/26/2007… I’m here to tell you about what your Top Commenteers have planned for at least the next 50 days. Grab a beverage and step over the Story Break...
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find!
What will not change: we are committed to bringing you Top Comments, Top Mojo and Top Pictures every night. This means we need you… really, really need you… to send those comment nominations in!!
What will change: First, there may or may not be a diary accompanying the Tops; it will be up to each individual Top Commenteer. We’ll function much like an Open Thread — folks are always welcome to chat about whatever comes up. Think the difference between a chatty community diary series and Jotter’s High Impact Diaries series. Second, if we don’t have someone able to take an evening, we will simply let that night go without a diary. This will require you not to panic at 10:02PM Eastern if no diary is published. You can follow our twitter and subscribe to our feed to make sure you do NOT miss us! We will do our very best to make up the Tops the following night — we can retroactively retrieve Top Mojo (or rather, Mr. Brillig can manually do so and I’ll lay in a stock of his favorite ice cream) and Top Pictures.
Step into the new format with us, won’t you please? I’ll lead us off tomorrow evening, and I hope to see you there. And now, as promised, here are tonight’s Tops:
TOP COMMENTS
Brillig's ObDisclaimer: The decision to publish each nomination lies with the evening's Diarist and/or Comment Formatter. My evenings at the helm, I try reeeeallllyy hard to publish everything without regard to content. I really do, even when I disagree personally with any given nomination. "TopCommentness" lies in the eyes of the nominator and of you, the reader - I leave the decision to you. I do not publish self-nominations (ie your own comments) and if I ruled the world, we'd all build community, supporting and uplifting instead of tearing our fellow Kossacks down. Please remember that comment inclusion in Top Comments does not constitute support or endorsement by diarist, formatter, Top Comments writers or DailyKos. Questions, complaints or comments? Contact brillig.
From paz3:
This comment by Listner2 is worthy of the comment of the day! From the diary Strong indicator Venus may have life, by Bobs Telecaster.
From Youffraita:
TOP MOJO
Top Mojo for yesterday, September 13th 2020, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on FAQing Top Mojo.
Top Pictures
Top Pictures for yesterday, September 13th 2020. Click any picture to be taken to the full comment or picture. Thank you jotter!
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