Darius forced the website to divide by zero which returned an infinite value. Since mysql only caps at 9223372036854775807, that value was displayed as the total points.

tl;dr Darius divided by zero and blew up the internet.

Refer to this comment:www.sharenator.com/Glitch_with_the_related_posts_poi
nts_on_Sharenator/258516/

from this post:www.sharenator.com/Glitch_with_the_related_posts_points
_on_Sharenator/

wtf?
how did this happen?

LOL! It must have been a glitch because all of them are the same. Seriously though, how did the number 1 ranked post go from 589 to like 4407?!

i was playing the same game when it happened

This glitch was fixed, but some posts are still cached with incorrect amount of points. It should be ok soon.

Yeah... i think the maximum number PHP can handle is 9223372036854775810 (or there abbots) unless you use bigint or something (i cant remember lol). If the post has a minus number of points, this, for some reason displayed as maximum number - points or something similar.