I honestly don't remember when it got flagged, but we generally try to catch these suspicious votes as they come in.

Please keep in mind that there are thousands (probably tens of thousands) of submissions each day that are fluffed up by a variety of different cheating methods. Our devs just try and create the most efficient system that nails the cheaters without punishing legit redditors in real-time. It's a hard problem with an imperfect solution.

Yes, it seems ironic, bc you shouldn't be punished for having lots of fans. But telling a bunch of fans to go create reddit accounts just for voting up a link is the equivalent of paying/shoving drunks into voting booths and telling them to vote for your candidate. The problem is, software can't tell if you directed people to do it or they did it on their own accord (the latter - what you're describing, is the best of both worlds, because it means we get a lot of new redditors and you get a boost from legit fans).

You've created such a name for myself that you shouldn't worry about any problems as long as you live up to your end of things and don't actively seek shady votes (bc should the system misfire, you can ping a member of team reddit and your reputation will help you quite a bit).

Please email me your mailing address would you? alexis @ breadpig dot com.