Upvotes aren't an accurate representation of users. The higher a post's score, the more upvotes it needs to increase. For example, a post with a score of 7 wou

Upvotes aren't an accurate representation of users. The higher a post's score, the more upvotes it needs to increase. For example, a post with a score of 7 would increase by 1 every time it receives an upvote, but may need 10 or 15 upvotes to increase by another point once it gets over 1000 points (made up numbers). A few months ago, the admins made a change to the algorithm to allow posts to gain much more points than before. Now, a post gets 1 point per upvote until, say, 10,000 upvotes, after which it only needs 5 upvotes per point.