I cant help but totally disagree with your premise. Downvotes are not censorship in any way. You want different ways to sort posts, your idea of total votes is more like a "hot" or "controversial" sorting option. And thats all cool. But downvotes are not censorship or a hecklers veto, its just public opinion equal to "boo you suck" which is a valid opinion to share, easily expressed by downvoting.
If downvotes automagically deleted a post, thatd be censorship, if mods deleted posts just because they got downvoted, thats censorship, a post reaching negative value and remaining exactly where it started on the sort by new page, thats not censorship
It's a form of heckeler's veto through burying it in negative points.
It also contributes to the formation of echo Chambers and prevents Poal from being a "bubble buster."
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