Community Spotlight’s mission is to ensure that the best stories from the Daily Kos Community aren’t overlooked. This group of volunteers has been reading every story on Daily Kos and rescuing stories for 15 years!
Community Spotlight is a group that grew out of former Editor-in-Chief Susan Gardner’s solo effort way back in Daily Kos’ early blog era. She read everything and chose worthy stories by Community members that weren’t getting enough attention. When she asked for help, members volunteered, and two of them are still rescuing stories today. The current team of 16 Rescue Rangers works on a schedule that ensures each story published by the community is considered. Everything added to our blog is read by two Rangers. If you write and publish an original story, it will be reviewed for rescue.
At times, Community Spotlight (first called Diary Rescue) has been featured in different ways and spaces on the Daily Kos home page. In the last redesign, its regular permaspace did not survive, but we have brought back obvious navigation in two places. First, in the left-hand “Hamburger menu” of three horizontal lines, and second, in a strip of the four most recently rescued stories just below Community Groups.
Thanks to everyone on the Rescue team for all the work they do to ensure that every story published here is read by someone, and for helping us all find terrific stories to read that maybe didn’t originally grab us with their headline.
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