I don’t get blogrolls

I’m not sure why people put miles-long blogrolls on every page of their blogs. Sure, have a “links” page. But every single page containing a list of all the blogs you read? Some apparently several hundred long? Page bloat. Just because there’s a widget for Blogroll doesn’t mean you need to use it. On every page of your site. All they’re doing is making your site harder to navigate, take longer to load, and completely messing up utilities like Google Blogsearch’s “Incoming Links” (which is part of the WordPress dashboard – now rendered useless because every site with my blog in their blogroll now lists tonnes of pages linking to my site, even when the posts have nothing to do with me or my blog.)