How to cheat on reddit so that your site gets mostly up votes.

[amichail]

I'm assuming here that many users will be using a bookmarklet/toolbar to vote a site up or down.

The idea is to have two links associated with your site, a positive link and a negative link.

When a user is on your site, you have an algorithm to determine whether his/her experience is likely positive or negative. If positive, you use the positive link. If negative, you switch him/her over to the negative link.

A happy user will likely vote up on the positive link. An unhappy user will likely vote down on the negative link. And so your positive link makes the front page.

[eru]

Nice idea. I wonder how well one can predict how happy a user will be. Perhaps there is a distinctive pattern in the length of the visit? Or how fast someone clicks through your site?

Still you need some traffic in the first place.

[bouncingsoul]

Or you could skip the magic algorithm altogether and just show both widgets on the page, positioned and cropped in such a way that upvotes affect the positive link and downvotes the negative.