Endgame Viable

Looks like Daily Whackjob exposed the secret to gaming the BNN Influence rankings this past week — SWAC flame wars! :) It pretty much confirms that comments weigh heavily in the Influence formula. (But only comments SOME blogs’ comments — Too Conservative, for example, had 53 comments on a recent post but is nowhere to be found on the Influence list. Hrm, actually BNN shows that post having 10 comments — that could be part of the problem.) It all goes to show how hard it is to objectively rank blogs based on Internet statistics.