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30 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 10h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
It wouldn't necessarily come with any extra power. It was more of a nudge to keep the downzap option on people's minds.
Ahhh………….yes!! The infamous nudge. The one that the state loves to employ on every person in their jurisdiction. People can just as well ignore those that they do not want to reply to or even read. There is also blocking, isn’t there?
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There is muting, but that is purely personal. Downzapping is a community service that is costly to provide. When there is content that you think is actively detrimental to Stacker News, downzapping makes it less visible to others.
Imagine someone was plastering pornography all over the public spaces in your town. Sure, you could just ignore it or stop going to those areas, but if you chose to spend the time taking it down that would help your neighbors. And, if the person who spent the effort taking it down was acknowledged in some way by the community I don't see the harm.
Just because the state adopts a tool doesn't make the tool bad and Stacker News isn't a state.
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I just guess that I am one of Acton’s people when it comes to issues like this. As long as individuals do it and it is not power adjacent, I am OK with it.
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I think most of us tend that way, which is why there's so little downzapping.
An example of something that I thought was worthy of being downzapped was people making posts that were entirely plagiarized from someone else. Another similar type of post that I think is worth downzapping is pure AI output that is almost all hallucination.
These are things that prey on the earned trust within the Stacker News community and directly undermine it, without adding anything to make up for doing so.
I really don't see a fundamental difference between using your sats to upvote or downvote. Either way, you're exerting your will on what's visible here. Think of it as helping to cultivate a better Stacker News experience for everyone. We're basically all paying to be editors of this site.
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OK, how do you go about downzapping and what is the cost?
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The three little dots at the top of a post or comment, just after how long ago it was made, drops down a menu with downzapping as an option.
You can downzap whatever quantity you choose and it will go into the rewards pool.
It works the same as zapping, where increasing the amount comes with diminishing marginal returns, it's more important to have multiple stackers downzap than one downzapping a lot, and the trust level of the downzapper matters.