After I’d been on RedState a short while I wanted to award ‘gold stars’ for noteworthy entries, diaries and/or comments as an acknowledgement of the ‘above the ordinariness’ of the entry.

I’m not sure when but I’m guessing that RedState 1.0(?) had a 1 to 5 rating system which let you scale your approbation(which explains the 5s and 555 et.al.) the ‘Recommend’ came with only the recommend/don’t recommend option, which was in effect with RedState 2.0. This was probably a response to recommendation inflation (like grade inflation where everybody gets an ‘A’)! RedState 3.0 came with the new improved ‘unrecommend’ option (thank you!) allowing fumble fingered people like me the option of undoing an error either in keyboarding or judgment!

Sometimes a recommendation is a bit over the top and you can’t recommend someone’s comment. Sometimes one comment buried somewhere in the threads is worth recommending because the reply to the original premise elevates the discussion of the premise to a noteworthy level. Maybe we need a feature that allows us to rate replies!

Anyway……being from Maine and having a French Canadian Yankee sense of humor, I decided to replace stars with lobsters and the rest, as ‘they’ say, is history(enter gales of barely suppressed laughter here)!

I’ve awarded lobsters to many posters here! $peciallist, AChance,E Pluribus Unum and others have been awarded lobsters! I actually read a jaw dropping diary entry and had to quickly work up a 20 lobster image! I think I gave that one to $peciallist but it was a while back, memory failing…old age ya ‘know, not like you young people!

(Is RedState 2.0 officially part of the Paleozoic Era??)

Anyway, we are going to need a great sense of humor and an unfailing faith in God to get us through the next few years! Any occasion to get at least a chuckle will add to our longevity!

Clinging to my Guns And Bible!

From ME to you, MSgt, USAF (ret)