It is interesting that this is the exact opposite action Reddit takes when they are having server problems. I wonder what that says about each respective community.
Reddit's previously stated that non-logged-in users cause substantially lower resource consumption per user - I imagine that's a more likely explanation.
Presumably there's only so much caching you can do it this case - the points change on articles every second. Not like everyone has to see the most up to date content but it would be a trade off (that many wouldn't like)
