you can defend Smurf and this list all you want, the fact of the matter is the man treats every complaint as if it were some grave mistake on the part of the person making it and he himself can do no wrong. look at his responses to any complaint in any list that he has made over the last 5 years (obviously not literally, unless you somehow have them archived. although you can go back and look through this topic and maybe the one that came before it if it is still around).
this isn't an issue of 'don't try to cater to all of the whiners' it's a matter of blatantly ignoring any instance where someone makes a valid point against him, or responding to a sentiment that could be expressed by MULTIPLE people (are they all wrong?) as if those people have no idea what they are talking about. as for why his lists draw so much viewership it's because he's a massive attention whore who knows exactly how to manipulate people into getting what he wants. popularity does not denote quality (other than maybe the quality of 'how popular is this thing'), and that's an argument no one should ever have to make. it's just basic common sense.
also the whole 'if you don't like the list, make your own' defense is paper thin, bordering on outright stupid. it assumes that I give a tenth of a **** who the top 50 most influential users in board 8 history are, which I don't, and that I'd want to share my thoughts on the matter with the entire board to garner as much attention as possible from them, which I don't. the whole idea behind this list is a joke, and I wouldn't be caught dead putting forth the amount of effort it would take to even attempt something like this because it's monumentally stupid to begin with.
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