system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How come reddit posts only have about a thousand points, but ones on sites like 9gag have 50k?
gpt
There is an algorithm that counts votes and displays numbers. The more upvotes a post has, the less an additional upvote is counted. The number of downvotes and upvotes shown are not direct counters on the clicks.

This was not the case very early on, so when you check out the top posts of all time some of the very early ones have larger numbers, even though there were far less users then.