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I first started looking into this topic when a post of mine that got pretty popular all of a sudden disappeared. Then I looked into it, and saw that it had been downzed very heavily.
I wrote a browser extension to compare the lit feed with another version of the lit feed, that didn't include down zaps. There's huge differences.
I wrote a browser extension to compare the lit feed with another version of the lit feed, that didn't include down zaps. There's huge differences.
this gotta be the most Bitcoiny/SN-y thing to do... oh, weird... let me build something to get around it!
Yes it's fun, and interesting to see, but the browser extension mainly just exposed the problem for me.
If some kind of protection against downzap censorship, doesn't become a default for all users, then it's almost useless.
I don't want to write into a vacuum, and have well written , thoughtful posts be downzapped to oblivion.
one of the major promises of AI is that it enables much more of this behavior - bespoke solutions to bespoke problems
I might be misunderstanding how much the downzaps affect ranking, over time. Could you explain more about that?
The order and timing matter a lot because the weight of each (down)zap decays exponentially.
Oftentimes, the posts you're talking about were visible for hours because of the zaps they received. Then they received the downzaps and got knocked down. In this case, you're ignoring the initial hours of visibilty.
Other times (and often because you draw attention to it), posts that were downzapped out of visibility receive new zaps. Because this happens hours after the downzap, the new zaps significantly outweigh the downzap and the post becomes Lit again.
Yes, I don't doubt that downzapping has a noticeable impact at any particular time.
I think you’ve been overstating the impact of downzapping.
Many of the posts you talk about were highly visible on the Lit page for long periods of time.
What you might be missing is the decay rate of zap importance. Even a large downzap can be outweighed by a much smaller zap later in the day.