Who made you the arbiter of taste and decorum on this board? This is a user-driven website; what is popular is what we want to be popular. Of course PG can do things like block Valleywag but if he gets too cavalier about it the users will go elsewhere.
earning the right to vote made me an arbiter of taste. this post is a link to blog post that is just a collection of links to actual content. if one of those links contain an interesting proposition and research to support it, well then that might pique my intellectual curiosity.