As a Reddit Mod, this doesn't seem to counter one of the best defences against people spamming their own content: training the spam filter to hate a specific URL.<p>This system would only seem to work if the URL got through the spam filter, so isn't much use to the kind of voting rings you tend to find already operating on Reddit.<p>Though it's still a very valuable proof of concept.
Link to the actual article:<p><a href="http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/cheating-reddit-auto-votes/" rel="nofollow">http://www.esrun.co.uk/blog/cheating-reddit-auto-votes/</a>
More info on the technical side would have been far more interesting, ihmo.<p>command control system implementation, software stack, coupling the capta with a captcha filling service...<p>(I do not support this kind of scheme)
This is odd, considering how reddit bans the submission as soon as two accounts vote on it from the same IP.<p>EDIT: Hmm, the page in the video says "unique IPs", so it looks like they are used remotely. Odd.
<p><pre><code> ...as long as the article is interesting, this can be quite successful.
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If the article's interesting you don't need to game the system - people will vote on it naturally.