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These are the posts that were downzapped on 2/20, 2026 (saloon time):

If your post was downzapped but missing from this list, let us know in a comment below and we'll try to debug.

4 additional posts were missing from the list today, apologies:

We'll eventually get to a point where we are doing this right, at once.

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this will be very cute, cindy kate

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There may be no real freedom of speech without freedom of money, but there is no point to freedom of money without freedom of speech either; at least not on a community platform.

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hmm i see what you mean. but i don't think i see where an individual's free choice to downzap could impede my free choice to post - or is there another thing happening to my post post-posting that cuts freedom. . .

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is there another thing happening to my post post-posting that cuts freedom

Yes, filters. We weren't able to find some posts anywhere, for example #1437659, not even when using the Stacker News API, until using the special desperados search. This implies that posts are hidden from the general public, and we have been loudly made aware that it is for 89% in the list above for no other reason than one communist suppressing the speech of their perceived enemies, whether these be libertarians, Americans, cowboy credit users, or simply people with a dissenting opinion.

Thus, we fix this by syndicating all posts that were down zapped, no matter if this lead to the actual state where discoverability was impeded at any point in time, to boost the discovery of potentially good content for all stackers except those with highly advanced SN navigation skills. As I said this morning on yesterday's post, I will re-iterate "each down zapped post, regardless of politics, source, quality or whether it was written by carbon-based or silicon-based unintelligence."

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Thanks for making the list, I see a few things I need to read.

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Precisely! My enemy's enemy is a pretty good filtering mechanism

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Glad to be of service!

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Clever way to resurface the suppreSSed posts. Thank you!

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Human intolerance can sometimes best be countered with human tolerance.

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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 22h

Haha our pod preshow notes might be the only one that deserves to be downzapped.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @adlai 15h
@CindyKate's bio by @CindyKate for 100 sats

this is hilarious

what's the point of downzapping a bio?? "sending a message"?

speaking of which, I think it's good that you're doing this, because I don't believe there is actually any notification of downzaps. I do think that better effect could probably be accomplished by spending some of the downzap cost on a comment explaining the disapproval [or even just memeing], although I guess that might still raise the overall zaprank if that comment gets zapped enough.

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Oddly enough none of my posts have been downzapped

YET

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