I don't know how crazy we're talking about here, but I just wanted to point out that Reddit has been doing a lot of anti-privacy crap in the last few weeks and just a couple of days ago, there was a post which got to the frontpage, originating from multiple subreddits as well, and that post pointed a lot of this shit out and also quoted the Reddit CEO talking down on users like you'd expect it from Mark Zuckerberg.

Here's the post, in case you want to read it yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4ll9tc/it_looks_li...

In other words, maybe these upvotes are legitimate and there's just a big portion of really pissed off Reddit users here...

I looked at the vote data and didn't see anything fishy. My guess is that it shot up because people love smoking gun posts and Reddit is always a popular topic. Then it got heavily flagged and plummeted to the depths.