I don't think very many people manually upvote Techcrunch stories, certainly not off the new page. They get on the front page because every single post they mak

I don't think very many people manually upvote Techcrunch stories, certainly not off the new page. They get on the front page because every single post they make is submitted by multiple users, and double-submission counts as an upvote. People with rss-scraping auto-submission scripts (free karma if you're first) heap fuel on the fire.