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[–] Vheissu_ ago 

Although I have no more information than you do, what you have said is most likely correct. Whenever a page is loaded, the contents of the page itself like the title and description are most likely being cached. However, the comments section is dynamic and therefore every time someone loads the page that is another request and presumably expensive database operation (depending on the type of query and how your database is configured).

The current method is how I would handle reducing load. Whoever is handling this stuff at Voat is banking on the fact that not everyone will click the continue viewing link therefore potentially saving a few hits to the database. Rather than assuming everyone wants to see every comment, they know only a certain subset of visitors actually will. Reddit limits threads on a submission presumably for this reason, but they have more server resources at their disposal, so the depth they allow is greater than Voat currently does.