i give you the top ten stories of 2010, chosen by trial.
1) Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce (200)
2) The Nimble Men by Glen Hirshberg (210)
3) Papa Was a Gypsy by Shannon Celebi (207)
4) Acceptable Losses by Simon Wood (191)
5) The Dreaming Way by Jim Bihyeh (182)
6) Her Collection of Intimacy by Paul Haines (204)
7) Set Down This by Lavie Tidhar (197)
8) Bird in a Wrought Iron Cage by John Alfred Taylor (175)
8) The Dark Level by John F.D. Taff (188)
10) Is This a Horror Story? by Scott Edelman (206)
That "Set Down This" is on the list at all, invalidates the whole thing.
dude, seriously, we all get that you didn't like this story. but this whole thing was a quasi-democratic process. clearly of the people playing, enough of them thought 'Set This Down' was a good enough story for it to end up in the top ten. Your vehement dislike for it does not make the entire process invalid. No-one didn't ask for your top ten, the point was for the community (or a small portion of it, anyway) to decide the top ten in a slightly different way than simply voting for favourite stories. You're well within your rights to disagree, i personally would have liked to have seen Spirit of Nationalism up there because I loved that story, but I'm not saying that its absence invalidated the process.
Fiction is personal and individual; what one person likes, other people will hate. Please accept this and stop acting like a child. Your opinion is not fact, you have every right to dislike something, but you cannot say that a quasi-democratic process is invalid because the majority of people taking part in that process disagree with your opinion.
for the record, I didn't take part because I was still working through the archive for 2010, so I hadn't listened to all the stories on the list. I didn't take part in nominating for the polls either for the same reason.