Why would it, how could it possibly by so? Are you suggesting I somehow gain traffic by artificially lowering BFL's rating in this thread? Are you suggesting that for the 8 months this resource had no ads in, that increased niche of 'BFL circlejerk troll' traffic somehow made me money?
I cut out the rest of our diatribe because it's pointless to argue with you. You won't admit, even though everyone else here agrees, that your guide is biased, if for no other reason than you made a category... I mean a "tier" named BFL. There's nothing biased about that, oh no.
That said, you absolutely, positively did gain traction on your guide by bashing BFL. If you had been honest and impartial in your guide, BFL would be rated higher and you'd have all the trolls bitching and moaning and whining and making you out to be the devil and your guide would have gone exactly nowhere. You banked on the hate train and gained your dubious reputation directly off the back of BFL. So yes, absolutely you gained traffic by artifically lowering BFLs rating. That is painfully obvious. It's not about making money (or lack thereof) it's about gaining traffic and mindshare. You know this, you're just being hyperbolic... again.
The trust system works as long as companies don't pay people to discredit those they see as opponents as you did. You're essentially saying 'you did it to me so I did it to you', right?
If someone can pay others to game the system, then the system DOESN'T WORK. Dude, are you this oblivious to your contradictions in real life or do you just not read what you write after you write it? I can only imagine what actually talking to you face to face is like, it must be an absolutely mindblowing experience.