How does the voting system work?
Popular complaints are determined using many factors including number of complaint views, comments, links from other blogs, number of votes, quality of votes and other secret sauce additions to our most popular algorithim. Popular complaints are displayed on the front page.
Registered users are able to add friends by clicking the “Add Friend” button under user avatars. When friends vote and comment on each other’s complaints, the complaint popularity can be increased. Although registration is not required and all votes and comments count toward the score of a complaint, votes and comment scores of register users are more heavily weighted.
If you want your complaint to move up the list of popular complaints, try using the “Share This” link at the bottom of every complaint. Share your complaint with friends via email, or submit your complaint to other social sites like Digg or StubmleUpon to help increase the popularity of a complaint. Spreading the word about your complaint can increase views, comments and votes that will increase the popularity of your complaint.
If you are a registered user and you have your own blog, post an RSS feed of your complaints in the sidebar to help increase the popularity of your complaints. The url for your RSS author feed is http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/author/{author name}/feed/. This is a very powerful way to increase your complaint popularity because external links to complaints are weighted heavily in the complaint popularity algorithim.
