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Top Comments: Happy 19th Anniversary to Us Edition [1]

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Date: 2025-06-16

Welcome to another Monday here at Top Comments!! I hope that you, like gizmo and many of our Top Commenteers, were able to either attend or appreciate the awesomeness that was a No Kings event. Mr. Brillig and I decided not to attend the big Boston Pride/No Kings event; instead, we participated in our local city one. I knew that many of our “protest regulars” would be in Boston, so wasn’t sure how many folks would stay local. To my great surprise and happiness, several THOUSAND people showed up (my city population is around 28000, but of course people came from surrounding towns too). It was a really good experience to show our MAGA and immigrant neighbors that we are here, we are NOT silently acquiescing to authoritarianism, and that even people who ‘never’ attend these events showed up.

Last week was a milestone for Top Comments. On June 14th 2006, Carnacki penned what would be the first Top Comments diary. In his Commentary Central he laid out these three goals:

1. Highlight informative, funny, interesting comments that might not have been seen. 2. Shine a spotlight on comments that need troll-rating. This is not to open up a troll war. This is simply to help the moderation of this community. 3. I hope this diary becomes a nightly feature. And I don't want to post it every night. What I hope is that others volunteer to do it. In particular, I'm thinking the best volunteers will be those who aren't people well-known on DailyKos for diaries, but who comment often and read quite a few diaries.

Nineteen years later, we are still here. This diary will mark (approximately) the 8100th diary using the Topcomments tag. We don’t publish every evening, but we try our best (and if you’d like to potentially help us out, drop any of us a message!!). We STILL look for informative, funny and interesting comments. We don’t function as a moderation hub and at least from my perspective, I’m ok w that… I believe we need to lift up! We don’t get the huge traffic we used to… there was a time when we got hundreds of comments nightly… but we will always strive to provide a place to get away from pie fights and enjoy some company from folks at Daily Kos who know it’s the community, and not the clickbait, that keeps us here.

We’ve written a number of anniversary diaries, and both so you can take a look at them and so we have a nice record for future years, here’s the list:

72 authors have used the #TopComments tag. I helmed my first Top Comments diary way back on Sept 26 2007, and I believe am the longest-serving member of the Top Comments crew still writing for the series. I feel very, very old now!!

I say this every week, but I truly mean it… we canNOT do this without you, our readers. Yes, we can pen the diary, and collect Top Mojo, but we cannot read every comment (heck, even the Community Spotlight Rescue Ranger team, of which I also am a member, reads diaries in four hour shifts!!). If there’s a great comment, help others see it! If you see someone say “great comment” or “TOP!”… comment with a suggestion to send it in to us!!!

Happy Anniversary, Top Comments! And with that, let’s get to the Tops!

Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find!

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