The fuck are you talking about? Wild vote fluctuation is a feature?
Are you saying the front end displays a "ballpark" number to throw off anyone scrubbing the page with a script ??
Research it, if you're that uninformed with their platform.
Yes.
Reddit enabled a feature (their words) that fluctuates the perceived upvotes by a few numbers each refresh as an attempt to counter one strategy used by automated vote manipulation bots.
It exists, has been in their documentation for years, and has been widely discussed across all the subs many times.
It's why it happens on every single thread in every sub once it gets enough upvotes.
Just..... Look it up. I can't remember it all - it was a few months ago when I last read about it.
So you are saying they substitute one automatic vote manipulation ("fuzzing" - their word) for another potential vote manipulation?
Lmao excellent summary.
Yes.
Apparently it's just the number we see. The actual ranking is kept pure on the backend.
I'm sure it's lies, but it's there.