You know it's time to unrecommend a dairy diary when...

I have a simple little test now for such diaries.  I look at them. If they have little in terms of factual information, I replace the words "Bush", "Republican" or "conservative" with "(insert Dem leader's name here)", "Democrat", or "liberal".  After doing that, if they sound like something ... I would read in freerepublic.com, I move on.
"DKos" Diarist

That's a good start. But a bit limited as we quickly found out.

Make the jump...

And now: "You know it's time to unrecommend a dairy when..."

If the comment thread contains more than 2 references to arguments from the previous day, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

If the ratio of comments to commenters is great than 5:1, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

If the phrase "no, YOU'RE the troll!" appears anywhere in the comments, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

If there is a link to the Meta-Jesus diary, the Getting Stupid diary, Kid O's Donna Brazil diary, or any election fraud diary, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

If the comments section is stuffed with esoteric, wheel-spinning, nit-picky infighting, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

If the diarist her/himself crawls out of your monitor while begging you to move on, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

If more of your energy is going toward username ego maintenance than to guarding the free world from the aggression of the neo-cons, it might be time to unrecommend the diary.

UPDATE: I'm off to bed. This diary is closed. I mean it. No more comments outa you!