I'm rarely convinced that the first response to any UX complaint should be, "file a bug report", because quite often the specific bug would most accurately be labelled "wontfix" after changing the mechanics that caused it to occur in a way that the entire flow isn't triggered anymore.

In this case, I'm guessing the sites like this in general work better when the comments are loaded directly¹, rather than scrolled into view; I have found myself prefering a similar navigation flow with structured pages like Wikipedia articles, where I can save anchored links at any moment that are quite close to my current region-of-interest. Scrolling in general is a huge false friend, because although it feels familiar from physical media, it is also stupidly inefficient from an implementation perspective... however, it's what people have mostly come to expect.

My first encounter with the phenomenon was some comment like "we don't need another darth", and my first reaction was, "wow, that is incredibly rude; why do they hate him?"

It took me a few days to realise the comment was equally interpretable as an acknowledgement of one account's sufficiency at filling its niche in the current stacker ecosystem.

I haven't studied the mechanics much, although my understanding is that downzapping is only effective at points in the comment graph where there are lots of sibling comments; furthermore, the utility of sats applied to downzapping might be quite different from the typical utility function for spending fungible money, because the downzaps are weighed against the positive zaps and I'm guessing there are usually more of the latter.

The way my client is rendered, it's almost too easy; "mute" is often the item closest to the mouse after clicking the three dots by a stacker's name. Although this only happens when the username in question is close to the bottom of the screen, that's where comments appear when they are scrolled into view one-by-one... not being a UX professional, I don't have much to do right now beyond complain, unhelpfully far away from the site developer's notifications, and maybe reread all my relevant complaints in some quiet hour next week.

Yeah. If you'll overlook the slightly antinatalist connotation, there are more than enough neurotypicals to keep all the neurotypicals happy. I'm more worried about hunger, and discriminates much less than neurotypical verbal sensibilities.

I'd rather that blithering idiots mute me and ignore blissfully, than tolerate some of the things I've been told by users of this site, both on and off it.

get better at vetting your collaborators, rather than only getting vetted by HR and interviewed by a boss

Sure; there's not any perfect spoken equivalent for this, that, let alone

... however, I would literally rather live on a desert island with hungry wolves to keep me honest, than use some threaded TikTok abomination where any comment is muted until the eye-tracking camera firmware activates individual voices.

[ and yes, I also get flak for my choice of words when actually talking ]

The word "symbology" was invented by Dan Brown because he worried "semiotics" might be too obscure; the latter is an actual academic discipline.

Vote!

It's a rapid recipe for becoming stupid without even requiring any traumatic brain injury. The academic equivalent,

is slightly more tolerant of acknowledging the wisdom of your peers, even if they never solicit your review.

Fifteen minutes after posting, I realise that I have committed the same error of which I accused @siggy47 earlier, and not configured a longer window for voting.

Is there unintended benefit? Sure, the results of this poll will reflect mostly opinions of the currently-hatted stackers. Worst case, I'll bother y'all again sometime next quarter with a longer voting window, after studying the hatless further.

Don't forget to mute folks who have nothing more to offer than a GPT that has been trained off comment sections on LinkedIn at a frequency no finer than weekly! Some people just have a talkative day, at the drunken fool digital nomad cafe.

May I sharpen your prejudices, dear maximalist?

Admittedly, your trolling is much more amusing when your coarse vocabulary and blunted interpretations all conspire to accelerate your loquacious unstacking, however there are occasionally subtler points that might be worth considering; for example, could some wiser future generation consider coins held in a baroque timelock mechanism as debt, held by the verifying nodes and owed to the allowed spenders?

Suddenly, debt is no longer a dirty word, if it is allowed to have a healthier definition outside of the undrainable swamp.

how come nobody has claimed ~juicing yet?

so y'know it doesn't overstep the bounds of ~HealthAndFitness ...

have you ever played around with electric prototyping kits of much simpler variety than Arduino and upwards?

there is much to be said for the metaphor of wallets as capacitors rather than anything so civilised as a database.

Well, thanks to your intrepid and forgiveable oversight, I've finally encountered a question where I learned that voting is not free!

Obviously I'm going to be arguing with myself for much longer, and probably not complaining quite like I did in my first week on the site. Gotta work on that ratio... only fools stack those hatty credits.

Votes are useful even after the polling station's parent bureacracy goes bankrupt. Imagine if someone could tell you their epic life story about getting persecuted by McCarthyism... would you even have believed long enough to listen to the old crank, if you hadn't noticed their parents' Communist Party membership card in the repurposed rolodex?

I never realised there was a plural to "Before Common Era"... a little help please?

Twenty four hours is ridiculous. You people need to lose your "hats" and think in financial quarters, not impulse purchases of artsy lighters stacked and dangling by the cash register, especially when well over half the demographic who'd likely vote for at least one of your options probably doesn't check sites like this on a daily basis.

I like these URLs a lot better than the roulette of m.stacker.news