Maybe you keep it from going out to nostr automatically. Maybe you think a few people will miss it. Maybe you just get the warm fuzzies from trying to censor views you dislike.

Cuz, like filteriny in general, it does nothing??

denlillaapan

Maybe so but it just so happens to line up precisely with the ideology of the most likely primary downzapper of other posts.

I suspect this is more personal than ideological.

Scoresby

Let's imagine someone with a lot of bitcoin who hates BIP110 (and maybe Russia and Palestine too and may be a spook) and is aware of Stacker News. Why not use a trivial portion of your stack to suppress posts you don't like?