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I first interpreted this to mean that upvotes were being subtracted by downvotes
That's how the voting work on reddit, unless I'm misunderstanding your comment. Your total link score is upvotes minus downvotes (with some fuzzing/obfuscation when numbers get higher). I would guess your posts have less points than comments because you've posted in subreddits with high per-user engagement, but lower total users. So your posts don't get seen by many users (hence low upvotes) but are engaged with heavily by the users who see it.
There's nothing here!