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Palestinian bloggers protest Daily Kos | 104 comments (104 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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Let's just leave it there, then, shall we. By the way, I noticed that you failed to recommend this diary on your way out. In Japan, this would be considered very bad manners.

by shergald on Tue Oct 26th, 2010 at 02:03:11 PM EST
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Re: Palestinian bloggers protest Daily Kos (none / 0)
Irrelevant, you're not Japanese.

I think you'll notice that I hardly ever recommend. Mostly because I'm lazy/don't think of it. But also because I recommend comments and diaries that I think are above average and worthy of note. The routine donation of recommendations devalues the entire concept. If all are deemed excellent, how shall we determine which stand out form the mundane.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Oct 26th, 2010 at 02:32:53 PM EST
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Sometimes a recommendation is not about the merits of a diary but about the cause it represents. It is like agreeing or disagreeing with that cause.

by shergald on Tue Oct 26th, 2010 at 04:28:25 PM EST
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You are free to respond in any way you choose for whichever reasons motivate you. As am I. I have given you my reasons and they are neither better nor worse than yours; simply different.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Oct 26th, 2010 at 04:41:52 PM EST
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It is possible to recommend a diary based on agreement with its agenda. But it does not follow that not recommending a diary is an expression of disagreement with the diary's agenda, since agreement with the diary's agenda is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for recommendation.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Oct 26th, 2010 at 09:08:13 PM EST
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Re: Palestinian bloggers protest Daily Kos (4.00 / 5)
shergald:
I noticed that you failed to recommend this diary on your way out. In Japan, this would be considered very bad manners
Bwahahahaha.

I removed my recommendation on account of this idiocy. What makes you think you're entitled to recommendations?

Of all the ways of organizing banking, the worst is the one we have today — Mervyn King, 25 October 2010

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Oct 27th, 2010 at 04:11:14 AM EST
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Palestinian bloggers protest Daily Kos | 104 comments (104 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)