Stacker News is a failed economic proposition.
It is not a viable self sustaining economic entity.
It is reliant upon egos and voluntary labour.
Territory owners are few who are self funding from income earned.
Boosting a post is at least more honest than what many like @denlillaapan do which is to use a sybil account to zap their own post.
Stacker News can only be viable if the quality of content increases and the number of participants who are happy to pay to consume content increases- this seems unlikely given the impression that Stacker News appears to be operated by strongly opinionated staff who openly take sides on many issues and do not treat all stackers equally.
The arsemilking circle jerking culture that has predominated on SNs is not one that will attract growth or prosperity.
It is simply an echo chamber for a small group of deluded libertarians who are demonstrably incapable of reasoned dialogue.
The idea that censorship would not be allowed on SNs has now been discredited with SNs enabling an anonymous nym to conceal their nym while downzapping any mention of The greater Israel Project into obscurity.
Is Stacker news funded by a wealthy Zionist patron?
It looks a lot like it.