I mean , it ' s no secret that that particular sub bots upvotes . The users act as bots , rather they encourage eachother to go through ' new ' and upvote every single thing . So in practice , yes , they ' bot ', but it ' s people doing the botting . Moreover , there are about 300 , 000 subscribers to that channel and most of them joined relatively recently , during a major political campaign so the idea that at any given time a topic might have been upvoted by 1 . 6 % and replied to by 0 . 01 % isn ' t that outlandish . It ' s simply a very active sub that encourages mass upvoting by its more engaged members . <| sep |> Personally I ' m glad it was the SpursPistons . Say what you want about offense in that era , but those were still two alltime great defenses going at it for 7 games .