Update: I spent the past few hours going over the full GSS (global snap score) algorithm for the "best of" mechanism and discovered a tiny error in the calculation. The problem was that instead of adding additional "listing value weight" (.5 per comment) value to a snap (this helps content stick around slightly longer), it instead resulted in adding additional up votes to global snap score based on the amount of comments. This of course is not how the algorithm was intended to work, so I fixed the issue and ran an update for all content. The goal of this specific mechanism is to slightly reward snaps that have conversations going over snaps that don't have conversations, now that it's fixed you will see the proper vote score numbers. Thanks everyone for pointing this out, I'm glad we were able to sort this out.

Also to clarify further, the goal of this specific mechanism is to increase the "stickiness" of a snap, to help it stick around a bit longer if there is an active conversation happening and not to increase it's ranking directly based on the up vote score.