Let me relay that I just got back from voting.

The lines were nonexistent, and I’m in downtown Atlanta.

To put it in perspective, I had an hour and a half wait for the general, and literally three minutes in and out today.

That can’t bode well for Martin who spent Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist (two blocks away) ‘rallying’
the urban vote.

I’m hopeful.

What, no “Black Panther” types there to “secure” the polling place to report?

Like I said before, we need to have the Polls covered by Girl Scouts… Fight hate with Cookies!

I don’t speak for the directors, I be one of them thar regular user types.

But I know that some substantial changes were made about a month back in regards to the diaries. First, the rotation of the Rec List has been altered in favor of, how to put this, more rotation. Easier to make the list, a diaries not staying up there past about 2-3 days.

Second, the moderators do cull out, on a case-by-case basis, the diaries that are basically one-paragraph comments — specifically to help thin out the ‘recent diaries’ list. To that end they have made an effort to toss out more frequent Open Threads to facilitate people blessing us with those one-paragraph thoughts, which are often worthwhile.

The second thing above is not systematic or automated, but I know they are doing it. Part of the problem here is a problem of becoming a large-draw, large-community site. We just have a ton of people with something to say.

Hope this helps.

n/t