This is one reason that favored Voat's policy of points not mattering. Some people are going to take the points incentive as a reason to spam. If you plaster a page with links, you're casting a wide net. Then again, the points aren't the only incentive, so at the end of the day it doesn't make or break whether or not we'd see this behavior. You get some subs with little insular communities, like the Q subs, and there exists a little status race inside those communities to be the one with the hottest take/news, regardless of the overall site score.