I would suggest that administrators not put too many IP diaries on the rec list
You have a top-down view of how this site works with is waaaay off. By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan
Still, I do believe that since Booman can adjust the rec list that ET does have this capability also, but it is just not used. Maybe I'm wrong. In my own case, if I see more than one IP diary listed on the rec list, I am now tending to hold back.
I just responded to Jake about the matter of rec lists, using MyDD in the US as an example. Over there, "recs" is the poorest measure of popularity. The best is "Views" then number of "Comments." But the Comments number is often inflated by the interactions between a few people. It is not as good a measure of popularity as "Views" by any means. That is evident from looking at the number of persons responding to this diary.
From what I can surmise, some people believe that anything posted on the IP situation is old hat, and as we all know where the next phase of this conflict is going, there's not much to debate. Events appear to overwhelm solutions reached by local debates. Nobody is listening. Moreover, there's nothing that a group of bloggers can do to resolve the conflict through debate, by insinuating that the site has a position on the conflict, and there's no much more to say.
THe IP conflict is an ongoing historical drama which is being followed by various diarists including myself, and needs to be publicized as events happening. WOuld it have been preferable to discourage diaries about the Gaza FLotilla because we all already knew that Israel would not let it make land in Gaza? Old hat.
Comments are unnecessary, in fact, even though they are welcome
That's what this site is about. By laying out pros and cons we risk inducing people to join the debate, and losing control of a process that only we fully understand. - Alan Greenspan
