apologies if I somehow just triple-boosted something to y'all. I literally cannot see the post myself unless I'm looking straight at it.
I'm wondering if this is some weird interaction between an account being marked private and that account asking a question that someone else answers, because this is an ask that I tried boosting repeatedly. I can't even un-boost it because I can't see any of them.
edit: I fixed it! there's only one now. and now I have enough info on this to register it as a bug, because this is very obviously a bug; there is no way for me to believe this behavior is "normal."
backed up someone who reported this bug here: https://help.antisoftware.club/support/discussions/topics/62000185009
the behavior they state seems like it has the exact same cause so I didn't make a new bug report. but they posted about this six months ago...
if any of the rest of y'all have run into similar shenanigans with asks and private accounts asking things, might be good to report on it here. not to hurry anything up, just to make sure they know this is a real thing happening.