I've seen it happen... The other 'quirk' which makes it a little worse, is that if someone submits something, and just asks a couple of friends to upvote it im

I've seen it happen... The other 'quirk' which makes it a little worse, is that if someone submits something, and just asks a couple of friends to upvote it immediately, it pretty much goes to #1. Maybe the ranking algorithm should have some protection against that. I think really, articles should rise and fall on their own merits, but I don't think there's any reason not to tell friends about a cool submission. They should then use their judgement as to if they upvote it.