They changed the algorithm on Dec 7, 2016.
Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20161206000344/https://www.reddit.com/
After: https://web.archive.org/web/20161208000333/https://www.reddit.com/
Best guess, based off the vote count differences of those two days, is that if you see a vote with 100,000 count, it’s likely closer to 20,000 count (divide by roughly 5 or so).
There was a post about it by KeyserSosa on Dec 6, so it’s not some conspiracy or anything.
I figured YSK.
That site is crappy. I never look at all and rarely look at popular. I glance at my own feed but rarely get to a second page.
It’s gross if you look at all or popular and narrow it down to an hour and look at the bots going hog wild
Softcore porn of the future: Bots Gone Wild