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Excerpt: Social media is a popularity contest. A study of UTube and Digg has shown that the popularity of a post or video depends on the number of votes it get early on in its life. This should come as no surprise to anyone that uses Sphinn. Articles gain importance from the number of Sphinn they can achieve.  On Sphinn I can see there are two reasons for this: i) A variation on the filthy-linking-rich theory – that posts with Sphinns find it much easier to get Sphinns. These sites will be ranked higher and receive greater exposure giving them more opportunity…