> I don't think a handful of bad posts on the front page really ruin the experience for anyone

I forgot to make that point. It's like how you learn to look past the top result from a search engine once you learn that those are the sponsored ones.

Undisciplined

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0xbitcoiner

Personally, I don't think a handful of bad posts on the front page really ruin the experience for anyone

Because of that, I don't think downzapping is really motivated by front page per se.  It's usually motivated by moral outrage, over Israel/Gaza, over scams, that cause a righteously indignant person to try and make sure no one sees the post at all

econ

Reflecting a bit on The Zap Wars

Personally, I don't think a handful of bad posts on the front page really ruin the experience for anyone

Because of that, I don't think downzapping is really motivated by front page per se.  It's usually motivated by moral outrage, over Israel/Gaza, over scams, that cause a righteously indignant person to try and make sure no one sees the post at all