Have you ever noticed that post and comment points on Reddit seem to fluctuate? That’s intentional, and it’s called “vote fuzzing”, basically, Reddit is randomizing what score is displayed. Reddit almost never shows you the real score of a post or comment and claims that it’s for defense against “vote manipulation”. I don’t think that even makes sense because people generally vote manipulate by voting from multiple accounts, and all the votes are accounted for so randomizing it shouldn’t really matter. However, it’s massively annoying because it makes it impossible for anyone to gauge just how many people voted on a post or comment and what its actual approval rating is.

It’s one of the most annoying things about Reddit, so I implore the Lemmy developers to never implement something like this. Mind you, this is different from vote backlogging which suspends totaling of inbound votes when the server is under heavy load, but I imagine backlogs don’t last for very long and it actually serves a benefit.