The Web is full of people willing to tell everyone their life story. But one of the most peculiar things about the Web is how difficult it is to put something in context. You can spend more time trying to figure out where someone's coming from than what they're actually saying. Of course, other than hiring someone to think for you, I guess there's no other way of going about it. Well, most people putting up pages don't take the time to give thoughtful opinions.
People think that listing what is cool is enough.
I think that's partly due to the fact that the Web is new and when you initially use it, it's exciting. A bigger reason is that writing a Web page is really easy and lots of people who have nothing to say are saying it. The Useless Pages guy, Steve Berlin, reads The Hall of Shame and sometimes emails me about it. For example, the Hall of Shame guy picked Worst of the Web after I changed my main page's background color to yellow. The Hall of Shame guy said I was copying him by choosing yellow because his pages were once yellow, though they had been since switched to white.