KC . .  I believe sites like this one help build long term invested fan communities so think you and others who run similar sites have every right to be  concerned,  i.e. "pissy",  about this change if it means being pushed off the front page.    Reality seems to be that not a lot of people refine their searches or even go beyond that first page.   Plus can't shake the feeling that this is going to snowball .  

Not sure how /if this ties in but was surprised to learn that Google ignores the tags on blogs/boards when gathering information.  
So does that mean that  frequent/consistent use of a name in thread titles and comments could help generate attention from their bots ?   would that attention then help with search page location ? 


Todd . . all those sources you enjoy now had  a starting point(s) right ?  
Guess my concern is for those just getting online and/or starting from scratch to build the kind of wonderful grapevine you have.  Seems they are  the ones who may miss out on some great sources of information / entertainment if  a small group dominates search pages.  

Or then there's this . . .  maybe the elephants dancing annoys me so much because I'm just an aging hippie with lifelong issues re:  the whole  "bigger is better" philosophy . . .