The PageRank method would basically mean that I don't get to vote on submissions.  I detest twitter, and I don't have my own blog -- neither of which prevents me from upvoting stories based on the HN guidelines (at the moment).<p>I just don't see how the linking power of the submitter should have anything to do with their voting power on this site.  With your algorithm, the webmaster of a popular celebrity gossip site would have vastly more voting power than I would.  Is that what you want?