Im not sure where the money is coming from but the moderators of the major communities do have a lot of power. I dont think it would be hard to create a upvote

Im not sure where the money is coming from but the moderators of the major communities do have a lot of power. I dont think it would be hard to create a upvote (or downvote) brigades plus the way reddit has done it with fuzzing the votes its very hard to tell.