It starting to look like it. Here's the top downzaps for today. You can also check it yourself - https://stacker.news/top/posts/day?by=downsats
The first was downzapped -5000, the second was downzapped -500.
This may explain why there's so little visible here on Stacker News about the Iran war, Israel, and US war crimes.
Globoslop such as those should be with extreme prejudice, but an effort in futility since brainwashed muppets are less rare than sats
I honestly don't understand what you're saying here.
Expected
You are full of shit and cannot state in a clear reasoned manner your position because it would reveal your idiocy and bias.
The contest of ideas is the fundamental free market and you cannot participate because your ideas are not capable of winning a contest of ideas but are pure self serving hypocrisy and drivel.
Do you think this is separate from the general downzapping spree?
I honestly haven't been on top of the downzapping spree. I barely know about downzapping itself, just dug into it a bit after seeing my post from this morning be in the top 10 or so, and then completely disappear from "lit" in the course of 15 minutes.
One account has been downzapping like crazy for a few weeks. It was initially targeted at people without attached wallets but there’s been a lot of collateral damage too.
That's not the case with these posts, it's easy to figure out who it was.
Really? What’s the clue?
https://stacker.news/top/stackers/custom?by=spent&from=1773273600000&to=1773359999999
Maybe the link's not working well on your PC because of the time zone. Just change the custom filter to March 12, 2026.
Haha, you’re the best SN internal investigator
~lol~lol
Maybe I'm spending too much time on SN, it's small and easy to spot these kinds of situations.
Can you see which specific post a user has downzapped?
No, but some math will figure it out!
I've just been checking my details for previous posts that were more political (Israel, Charlie Kirk, Iran war, etc).
And DAMN! Many of them have been downzapped! Gotta investigate this. I had no idea. I just today realized that my total sats has been getting depleted. I've never had that issue before, my balanced actually increased steadily even though I was actively zapping. But people zapped me back, so I was okay.
But now with this downzapping happening, I'm almost gone...
Gotta look into this more.
That’s not how downzaps work. They go to the rewards pool from the downzapper
Yeah I gotcha, but what's happening is that these posts that I'm making, and where I boost them - they normally get enough zaps to MORE THAN pay for the sats I use to boost them.
But that's not happening anymore.
Ah, yes, that is how downzaps work
You think US state security operatives are not active here on SNs?
Seriously?
I don't care about all this rulers theater and I just skip these posts; there must be people who are more engaged or offended enough to spend sats to "bury" this kind of content.
Not me but look at-
@Cje95 has a strongly pro US view on the war and presents pro US content seeking to justify US-Israeli war crimes.
Others here also strongly support the US assassination of Irans leadership and attempt to change the Iran regime and may object to content pointing out US-Israeli war crimes.
If you think the US government and its surveillance operatives are not present and active on SNs think again- or just look at @DarthCoin and his private army of sock puppets.
Do you think it’s moderation, or just users downzapping because they want to keep SN focused on Bitcoin?
Well, there's separate sections for people who want to stay focused on Bitcoin. I specifically posted in News.
One of the trade offs to having money be the moderator (instead of a chosen group of people), is that stackers who really don't like a certain topic are free to express that dislike with their money.
I don't know who is downzapping posts about politics, but I do find it useful to check out the top downzaps (link in the OP) every day to see if I'm missing anything because it's being downzapped. You can "rescue" a downzapped post by zapping it more than it was downzapped.
I wonder if there's a good way around it.
Maybe a user could "subscribe" to a filter, that would remove downzaps from certain people.
You can subscribe to a user and get a notification every time they post (or comment if you subscribe to their comments) -- regardless of whether they are being downzapped.
Go to the user's profile, click the three dots right of their username and select subscribe.
I know about subscribing to a particular user.
But what I was thinking of is this:
User JohnDoe creates a "filter" called IgnoreDownzappedForPolitics. This filter says - "ignore downzaps by XXX, YYY, ZZZ"
Then instead of subscribing to a user, I subscribe to that user's filter.
Something like that, anyway. Otherwise money can totally bury a post.
This would obviously be a new feature in Stacker News.
Filters are an interesting way of taking the edge off the extremes of money as the moderator.
Maybe I'll start checking out downzaps regularly, just to see how bad this is.
I had no idea.
Ohtis is a bot
please @k00b consider how someone might interpret the results of a service that detects low-effort comments, and then posts something like:
and the bio is then
SimpleStacker-grade bayesian mathslopI'm not saying it's a bad idea; there are already bots on Reddit doing exactly that, and they get lots of upvotes... although I suspect bots are a bigger problem in the more popular platform.
downzapping itself is not a popular activity; people prefer upzapping good content, and letting the talkers realise they'll get better engagement in other platforms.
there are unresolved incentive questions around the sats that get pooled by all the daily downzaps.