go to the archieves and look for:
Oct 16, 1999 -- post named ---
Links as Voting Topsites?
this is should be what you are looking for, If you read everything carefully and figure out what's going on you'll at least have something that look's like it's working, I'm not sure since some stuff form Widgetz is necesscary and I don't know if everything that is needed is disscussed in the post.
I had wanted the same thing.
Hope this helps