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go find some well-known nyms or territories and manually zap stuff+comments they like -- and enjoy the gains from the outsized rewards pool.
I can stay patient and inconvenienced longer than you can hurl sats in silly endeavors.
Raising the topic of the war in Iran and Middle East is perhaps in your opinion a 'silly endeavor'.
Not everyone shares that viewpoint, nor that arsemilking is the primary objective in participating on Stacker News.
This is a great discussion to have. I think there's a lot of options out there.
For instance, only allow down zaps to affect your feed ranking if they're not anonymous?
Or don't allow down zaps to affect your feed ranking unless they are established accounts?
One part of the answer, I believe, needs to be that this must be a default setting. Because it's if it's some obscure thing that 99% of stackers don't even know about, it'll be useless.
Why not simply make downzappers accountable for their actions?
If someone posts something and boosts it they are being open about and accountable for their actions.
In such a case stackers should be free to downzap content that is crowding the front page but downzappers currently seeking to covertly silence particular viewpoints would also now be accountable.
It is the covert nature of the downzapping that is encouraging it to be used to censor content.
If the censor/s are identified then they are then also accountable.
Let's pretend there are no downzaps.
In the case where a user boosts all their posts and covers the front page, what would the rest of SN users do?