Here we are, your collective refrigerator door, your collective bathroom mirror. (Nice trick, that!)
"I wrote this specifically to get the Wired/slashdot/MeFi crowd to love it, so you can't change anything or it will all collapse."
"Your copy editors are crap. They're changing much more than the editors at [other publishing house] did on my last book."
"OK, so the whole thing is a bit obscure. Let me just add a new first chapter and see if it makes sense then."
>Why isn92t it legal to track down spammers and shoot them out of hand?
Because spammers develop ways to hide behind innocent victims more easily than probably any other kind of criminal. See "joe job".
You are overlooking the search engines. They all try to use some metric of number and value of links in and links out to rank pages. These esteemable people (who is in fact probably just one person) are gaming the system so that their blog goes higher on the search engine pages, and hopefully appears in more search engine results. When they start putting more ads on their highly-rated pages, they get more money. Simple, no?
Being mostly a magazine-reader, I can't talk about the 100-best-novels or the Man Booker prize (why does everyone drop the "Man" part?) or the Nobels. Now, when they have "the best magazine articles of the year" prizes, I often look to see if I read any of them, or if I have any of them laying around unread.
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