Except that people have admitted to gaming the upvote system here many times in the past so its not all organics-based. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority

Except that people have admitted to gaming the upvote system here many times in the past so its not all organics-based. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of top articles had been shilled to N 'friends' / 'associates' / 'colleagues' etc before they had reached number 1. If you look at all the new submissions there are many interesting articles and most of them only get like 1 or 2 upvotes. So either its all random luck or people are coordinating it like they do on Reddit. But ofc: I will trust this totally legit website about marketing that everything is hard work, organics, yada-yada-yada, here's my email bro and ill be sure to click your referral links too ;>)