I'm curious if anyone else had a similar experience to mine.
I started noticing that when I made a new post on r/conspiracy, the upvotes and upvote percentage didn't align. For instance, I would have 10 upvotes, and it would say 83% upvoted. Not possible. No one can give you a percentage of an upvote or downvote. In case anyone wants to see the math on that...
10/x = 83/100
x=12.05
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They call it "vote fuzzing" in their info pages. It's built into the code to have the vote numbers jump around, so you're never quite sure what the exact number of votes is. They say it is to combat gaming the vote system and spam, or something like that. I think the percentage is possibly more accurate now that you have pointed out that it can't be representative of the number of votes in your example. But maybe that gets "fuzzed" too.
It's nice that voting here is like how it used to be on reddit. missed that up/down count.