I do like the idea of making people say why they're reccing a fic. That's an interesting idea. I really wish there was a good way to do this over on kfm that wouldn't cause people to freak out. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to do it there that wouldn't start people crying.

Agreed that reccing brings a ton of problems. If I recall correctly - popularity drama, drama thing was the reason why we don't allow rec threads on the kfm boards in the first place. I'm not even sure how it would work or who'd get to do the reccing. Would it be "Moderator's Pick?" (oh man... I can already hear the whining over that) or would people in general be able to recc stuff. And what's to stop people from reccing a ton of the popular stuff - and the good, overlooked stuff getting lost in the shuffle again?

I think that's why it would almost work better as a lj community or something - that way the people who ran the reccing community would be able to have tighter control on what gets recced or not - which would be separate from the kfm stuff.