That is a key to realizing how easy it is to game reddit. You don't need 1000 accounts - you just need 20-30 upvotes in the first couple hours. If done at the correct time (I've heard 6am western time is smart) it will easily be #10 on the front page because of the algorithm. All yesterdays 2000 upvote posts have been falling over night they are easily replaced by fresh content. The content only has to be semi-good to keep propelling it upwards by "real" votes.If you had, say, 30-40 IPs you could use to give a link or comment 30-40 upvotes within a short time-frame after that link was submitted (say, two hours) then that link's chances of rising to the top of the front page would be something like 1-in-10. If it's any good, your chances are even higher than that.