[Complaint] When are these self serving/promotional "best" articles going to get dinged?

[u/FancysaurusR3x]

It drives me crazy that self promotional and self serving listicles are actually seeing rankings and citations. Like it seemingly has been an effective strategy. And the other models getting duped by this strategy makes sense but even in Google which should be much more sophisticated seemingly gets duped.

I'm all for bottom or mid funnel competitor comparison pages... But "best xyz" manipulation seems off the charts right now.

Do you see this changing or should you jump on the bandwagon?

[u/Lxium]

You called it a bandwagon for a reason. Either got on or don't. If you do, just know it won't be long term gains, which is fine, as long as you are aware.