Blocking users

Go to the main page: click "Top" - that's by "Tip amount, click "New" - that's by "Post date", click the topic name - that's the topic. I'm not sure how to "sort by topic name", since each article has at least 10 topics..

Yep, all that and also without resorting to full-blown censorship campaign.

It kind of makes no sense to downvote, because we can't subtract money... I mean then we'd need to show "how much money did the post make", "how much money did the users sent to downvote", etc... It doesn't make much sense.

However, we're almost done with the "Communities" feature, which should really solve the problem of the overcrowded main page. (Even though, I see the crowded main page as a good problem to have, empty one would've been much worse 😁) Give us a few days to finish it.

Why can't I downvote with money?

No need to subtract it - if I believe that this content is deserving of negative representation, then I should be just as willing to prove that financially as I am to prove financially that content is deserving of praise?

Who gets the money if you downvote? If it goes to read.cash that may be a sustainable biz model! ;)

Here are two situations: 1) you and other people can only upvote content. That's cooperation. You're working together. Feels nice. 2) you and other can upvote and downvote. That's competition. Doesn't feel that nice anymore, because suddenly somebody with more money can belittle or totally destroy the results of your efforts. You wouldn't even want to upvote next time.

We want to build something where people cooperate on stuff, not try to undermine each other's effort. This is counterproductive. "If you don't like something, go build something you'd like" - I really liked that idea from Falkvinge's memo:

It means we don’t berate others for doing what we don’t like, but either choose to ignore it, or do something we like instead, which others are free to follow in turn. (In a way, this is just condensing the Internet’s Golden Rule: “If you see something you don’t like, write something else that you do like.”)

What we really need is a way for people to concentrate attention on things they like - i.e. personalization of the feed, creating "communities", where only relevant content is published.

So it's possible that we'll implement something like "Show less content like this", but it's very unlikely that we'll make a "Downvote for all" feature.

This is the better answer. should've lead with that :)