[ryandrake]

Any "Ranking of X" or "Curated List of Y" becomes useless and untrustworthy as soon as a cottage industry springs up around it where people can pay to boost their ranking or get on the lists. SEO, Amazon ratings, YouTube recommendations, even meatspace things like college rankings. This seems like The Big Problem that recommendation / discovery sites have been failing to solve for decades.

[lovethevoid]

They haven't been failing to solve it, that's what they're explicitly optimizing for.