Without that, the wrecklist has strong inertia, since people comment into a wrecklist diary for greater exposure and then rec that diary to help it stay up, and large numbers of users simply scroll through the wrecklist, rec'ing those diaries they like ... its a system that amplifies the normal power-law distribution, "rich get richer and poor get poorer" system.
Someone gets lucky with a topic of the hour that enough other people want to use to hang comments on, at the time that a current wrecklist diary has its rec's aging, and launches into the wrecklist for its run.
So normally its the long subscriber list that is needed to break onto the wrecklist with something other than the "topic of the hour". I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
Its still worthwhile to have the diary up on dKos, because there are numbers of kossacks who will follow a dKos link when they will not follow a link offsite. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
