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By the way, how does the software calculate solicited votes? Does it omit upvotes from a user on the same IP as the story creator?

Alas I can't answer that because it falls in the bucket of things that would stop working if they were public.

This is one of the (fortunately somewhat rare) cases where the principle of "optimize for curiosity" is at odds with itself!

Sorry to hear that, but thanks anyway.