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One Idea would be to increase the "gravity" effect on the frontpage: If it doesn't get the expected influx of votes in a short timeframe, drop it.

Obviously still cheatable but would require more (i.e. easier to detect) votes.

What a great way of penalising posts that take a long time to read.

So maybe we should propose a new field which is the approx. time to finish reading when submitting a story.

And so the cheaters would pick longer durations.

This can be easily identified since other readers won't agree on this field.