As you could probably guess, I don’t like this idea at all. For one, it doesn’t pass the “smell test.” It just feels fake from a content creator’s perspective. From a user perspective, it makes me wonder how much we can trust data/rankings from other sites like Digg and Stumbleupon, if there are mass attempts to manipulate results. Even if somebody else was OK with it, I hope they’d realize that they’d lose all credibility with their readers/users if it were revealed that they were doing something like this.