Also - the idea that people will still come onto Stacker.news and continue to write high quality posts, EVEN THOUGH they'll be censored (depending on the topic) is not true.
Certain topics (Israel) are completely censored. People that DO stay on stacker.news will just stop writing about these topics. Maybe there will be a few outliers (like @Solomonsatoshi) but mostly, it won't happen.
It's like conditioning. Hit a dog on the nose with a rolled up newspaper when the dog does something you don't like, and the dog will stop doing that.
Spend hours on an Israel related post, then it immediately gets downzapped so nobody sees it - you stop doing that.
People give up. Either stop writing on that topic, or leave stacker news.
The structure/mechanics of downzapping needs to change.
Also - the idea that people will still come onto Stacker.news and continue to write high quality posts, EVEN THOUGH they'll be censored (depending on the topic) is not true.
Certain topics (Israel) are completely censored. People that DO stay on stacker.news will just stop writing about these topics. Maybe there will be a few outliers (like @Solomonsatoshi) but mostly, it won't happen.
It's like conditioning. Hit a dog on the nose with a rolled up newspaper when the dog does something you don't like, and the dog will stop doing that.
Spend hours on an Israel related post, then it immediately gets downzapped so nobody sees it - you stop doing that.
People give up. Either stop writing on that topic, or leave stacker news.
The structure/mechanics of downzapping needs to change.