[mtrimpe]

Amazingly enough the thread about his passing [1] has 34.340 upvotes and 31.742 downvotes.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16fjjm/aaron_shwartz_r...

[drzaiusapelord]

My understanding is that the system begins faking upvotes and downvotes at a certain point to fool spammers.

[clicks]

Which is still curious, because it's common knowledge at this point that the numbers are fudged. Why even display it at this point? It serves nothing but to cause confusion.

[jlgreco]

Even though people know it's fake, I am sure it still plays an important role in gamification.

[sp332]

The difference between upvotes and downvotes is right, but the absolute numbers are random.