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35 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scoresby 7h \ parent \ on: Are political posts (Iran war, Israel) actively downzapped on Stacker News? meta

One of the trade offs to having money be the moderator (instead of a chosen group of people), is that stackers who really don't like a certain topic are free to express that dislike with their money.

I don't know who is downzapping posts about politics, but I do find it useful to check out the top downzaps (link in the OP) every day to see if I'm missing anything because it's being downzapped. You can "rescue" a downzapped post by zapping it more than it was downzapped.

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103 sats \ 4 replies \ @Signal312 OP 7h

I wonder if there's a good way around it.
Maybe a user could "subscribe" to a filter, that would remove downzaps from certain people.

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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 7h

You can subscribe to a user and get a notification every time they post (or comment if you subscribe to their comments) -- regardless of whether they are being downzapped.

Go to the user's profile, click the three dots right of their username and select subscribe.

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103 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 OP 7h

I know about subscribing to a particular user.

But what I was thinking of is this:
User JohnDoe creates a "filter" called IgnoreDownzappedForPolitics. This filter says - "ignore downzaps by XXX, YYY, ZZZ"

Then instead of subscribing to a user, I subscribe to that user's filter.

Something like that, anyway. Otherwise money can totally bury a post.

This would obviously be a new feature in Stacker News.

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 6h

Filters are an interesting way of taking the edge off the extremes of money as the moderator.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 5h

Maybe I'll start checking out downzaps regularly, just to see how bad this is.

I had no idea.

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