The problem is that these sites just are not influential With an Alexa rank lower than 500 000 and less than 120 inbound links for the whole site Fatally yours does not appear to be a source that many people go to So the fact that it reviewed a movie in depth while interesting even complimentary to the site s staff for their hard work isn t really important to our readers If a site is not notable we can think that perhaps it s not relevant what that site thinks We are not a collection of links The spammish tagging is valid I kept the sites that have significant traffic or that appear to have at least some influence But I removed the ones whether blogs fansites or whatever that are used nowhere else in the project and that have low traffic such as Fatally yours Many are worse Dorkgasm for example has only 20 inbound links As Erik says we should be providing only external links that are important and relevant not every external link we can scrape up