Ok there's some sort of bot war going on with the leaderboard, right? The Palestine fish has 370,000 votes total (both up & down), which seems like a lot. Does HN really drive that kind of traffic??

Well you can click thumbs how many times you want so ...

The rule of thumb is 100*upvotes+50, so with the current 600 points, it's like 60.000 visits. Don't take that estimation too seriously, it's only a not so bad initial estimation.

OP really needs to read "How not to sort by average rating"

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...