Could be people just aren’t upvoting it, could be all the upvotes did not properly sync, or it could also be a crosspost from a different community or magazine that got the comment spillover but again, without people actually upvoting all of the crossposts.

My personal policy is to upvote posts or comments that should get more visibility relative to other posts/comments in the same community/thread. So I might not upvote a post if there are currently other more important posts in the same community, but I might upvote comments on that post if I think they’re the most important comments on that post.

Conversation > Number of upvotes on a post. Similar to old reddit when upvotes didn’t matter as much but the information in said post did which would end up having the top few comments having more upvotes than the most itself.