I am blaming them for the herd mentality usage of the word "pretentious" and all negative connotations to it.
Yeah, they're snobs like that, but since I don't read the site that much, I was surprised to see stuff like 50 cent on their top 100 singles of the year. Are they trying to make themselves more credible? Either way it doesn't work for me and I only read for the occasional review/news