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It looks to me like this is just a raw count of word occurrences rather than what google thinks are the most relevant keywords, because I wouldn't expect the latter to contain words like "it's". If I'm right then the list isn't very informative.
Regarding words like "vote" and "parent", I think one way to hide them would be to put them in buttons rather than links.
Google does do some word-ranking. From memory:
1) if it's in the url - it's more important
2) if it's in headings (h1/h2 etc tags) then it's more important - the bigger the tag the better... but in descending in order down the page (ie an h3 right at the top may be considered more important than an h1 at the bottom of the page)
3) google starts at the top of the page and works down. Stuff at the top is more important than stuff below that.
4) If it occurs more frequently, then it's probably more relevant (thus vote and parent)
5) If other links, that point at this site contain the same keywords.. then they are more important
There's plenty of other stuff that goes into this - most of which google keeps secret and it changes on a day by day basis. There are people who make whole careers (lucrative ones!) out of figuring it all out.
Are 'Top' and 'Bottom' defined as on the unstyled page? If so, sidebars may be getting undue weight...
Yes, defined as on the unstyled page, however, if you're talking about the right-hand sidebar... it appears below the content on the page (I checked). The only things that appear "above" the content are the header-image, the top tabbed-navigation and that discussion blurb.