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All they're for is to show what interests people. It's no surprise that Arch makes it near the top of the list because it has the reputation of being an intermediate+ distro. Therefore (in my pure 100% speculation), a lot of newbies are interested in it because they too one day want to be one of those intermediate users. And let's be honest, distrowatch for the most part is a site newbies mostly go to. After awhile people transition to LWN.
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