My comparisons are uncharted because I'm too underground for MAL.
Honestly though, many of the lists compiled by users are going to be heavily biased towards the most popular series. Such as Bleach being #2 on one of the lists posted, when its animation, story, and everything are pretty meh most of the time.
Then you have the younger crowds in here that know that and Naruto, etc, but have never watched core classics like Bebop or NGE - specifically the guy that constantly quotes sales numbers and figures as a defense of what is good and isn't. The equivalent of saying Transformers 2 was good because it made money at the box office.