Yeah, the censorship on reddit overall has been astounding, so I can't say I'm surprised to hear of your experiences on the bitcoin subreddit, bro. That's why I've basically jumped ship entirely off of there and just mostly get on here. The vote buying thing isn't even the only way to do that, there was a guy a few years ago who made around 25-30 accounts and just kept switching his IP address around so they were all separate accounts and he upvoted 3 of his posts where they hit the hot/trending page and they of course then hit the front page of reddit over and over again.
That site is so easy to manipulate if you put your mind to it, it's really sad.
Yeah exactly, try doing that manipulation on a public blockchain and after some time you will definitely get busted.
I would say in no time at all you'd get busted. Steemit is a whole different animal in comparison to reddit, and people on here would notice pretty damn quickly if someone tried the same manipulation, it's one of the reasons why I like this site and the communities on here a lot more.