A few comments up you are saying that Steve's problems with the benchmarks game are invalid and the game isn't considered for the sort of comparison Steve (and many others) dislike because it says all over the website that
> These are not the only compilers and interpreters. These are not the only programs that could be written. These are not the only tasks that could be solved. These are just 10 tiny examples.
etc.
But now you are saying that obviously people will do naive comparisons using the benchmarks game. This validates the dislike of widely publicised one-dimensional benchmarks like the benchmarks game (NB this applies to a lot of benchmarks on the internet, the benchmarks game is just a particularly famous example, please don't get too defensive again).
Sure a discussion is taking place, but essentially any discussion about the benchmark game degenerates into either an argument about why the benchmark game doesn't cause one-dimensional comparisons (with the pro-Benchmarks-Game side consistently being overly defensive), or an argument about why using every unsafe corner of language X to basically mimic the fastest C program is perfectly reasonable, idiomatic and common in the real world.
How could it? Some kind-of black magic?
The benchmarks game is just a resource. In the example you provided a discussion is taking place, and some opinions are being challenged.