Looks like we have a race condition that someone triggered by using a script to rapidly upvote and then unvote the submission. I'm not sure whether to be grateful or pissed. Perhaps I'll settle on grateful once I've fixed it.

In the meantime, please don't anybody else do this!

Do a get a biscuit or something for somehow managing this?

Interestingly on the Harmonic client on my Android phone it is claiming -10 points. Very odd.

Ironically, the novelty of a negative point value seems to be the primary driver of traffic to this post.

My theory is either fudging the display (add/remove votes to prevent people from knowing the real count), or there’s a secret API that some bot found and exploited.

Or maybe it uses negative points when it detects bad actors voting/commenting on it? Just spitballing of course.

It won't even upvote it to -3. Integer overflow?

This is...a first.