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        riddles >> general problem-solving / chatting / whatever >> Cheating your way to mostly up votes on reddit.
        
(Message started by: amichail on Jan 30^th, 2008, 1:24pm)

Title: Cheating your way to mostly up votes on reddit.
Post by amichail on Jan 30^th, 2008, 1:24pm

Suppose you submit your site to reddit and would like it to have mostly up votes so that it can make the front page.

So here's an idea for doing that by cheating.

I'm assuming here that many users will be using a bookmarklet 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 the positive link. An unhappy user will likely vote down the negative link. And so your positive link makes the front page.

Title: Re: Cheating your way to mostly up votes on reddit
Post by amichail on Feb 2^nd, 2008, 7:40am

As an example, suppose your site has a game/puzzle.

When the user visits the site via the positive or negative link, you redirect to the negative link.

If the user plays several levels of the game/puzzle, then he/she probably likes it and then you can switch him/her to the positive link.