by Chris Bodenner
First a quick reminder that Andrew is off the blog this week, since you might have missed his short sign-off at the bottom of the Best of the Weekend:
I’m taking next week to work on a longform essay, and leave you in the very capable hands of my Dish colleagues.
So naturally the former half-term governor of Alaska tossed out a big piece of Sully bait.
In real news today, Oregon became the 18th state to get on the marriage-equality bandwagon. The most-trafficked post of the day came from the French sex columnist who rounds third base on every first date. Runner-up was Andrew’s post last night picking apart Douthat’s critique of Obama’s foreign policy record. Other popular posts included a close look at long-distance love (with a reader’s cross-town story here) and Patrick’s first installment of his week-long takedown of Nicholas Wade’s new book on race and genes.
18 more readers became subscribers today. You can join them here. One subscriber wrote this weekend:
I’m not sure if I am alone here, but put me down as a major dissent to the new style of adding reader voices at the bottom of the story. As a long-time Dishhead who keeps the page open, once I read the story I don’t go back. Part of what makes the Dish exceptional is the sense of community. The dissents are posted like a normal story and get top billing. This seems like crap but I am also resistant to change so I will give it awhile. But I am not happy.
The reasoning behind the practice is to include as much of your feedback as possible without overloading the already-high output of posts. Every day we receive short but informative emails that aren’t consequential enough for an entirely new post, or emails that correct or clarify a key part of the post, so we add it to the bottom of the existing post. And we do so quickly in order to maximize the number of readers who see them. For those who miss the updates, a few weeks ago we started to include in The Best Of The Dish Today a link to all of the posts updated that day (and all of the ones before that). It’s a feature we made for just the kind of obsessive readers as the one above. He followed up:
I hadn’t noticed that new feature … I will give it some time to grow on me.
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