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Reddit obfuscating vote counts was part of its “vote fuzzing” feature. The goal was to make it impossible for ninja banned accounts to know if their votes were actually being counted. So banned people/bots would keep using their banned accounts rather than make a new one.
that was the idea, anyway. of course, anyone using a 3rd-party app was able to get the real vote counts. and it only ever worked when shadow banning was a thing, which they (mostly) stopped doing years ago. don't know if that's back because i left months ago.
That was the idea, until Reddit realised the potential of manipulating vote counts for their own benefit.
also true, but that's a whooooole other load of spezshit^1^.
[1] spezshit-- bullshit, but from spez