Vindicator told me: There was a post in v/announcements by PuttItOut last week saying they were facing a DDoS extortion attack. It's my understanding that lagging upvoats is one of the measures they sometimes take to resist DDoS attacks attempting to overload the system w/vote bots.
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Flairing this as "important" since site seems to get scrubbed.
YingYangMom ago
I upvoated your comment 5 minutes ago, but the count is still at 0 even after refreshing the page.
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Vindicator told me: There was a post in v/announcements by PuttItOut last week saying they were facing a DDoS extortion attack. It's my understanding that lagging upvoats is one of the measures they sometimes take to resist DDoS attacks attempting to overload the system w/vote bots.