context would indicate someone has been incorrectly labelled a bot, for example others liking their posts or replying to them, we could then counter label them as say not a bot and maybe label the persons labelling them a bot as false labellers etc, some way the truth will come out, point is you cant ultimately be stopped here if anyone else wants to see you
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There seems to be a couple of problems. I am in favour of a user muting and blocking content they don't want to see. I am not in favour of that affecting what I see. It seems they can only do this by reporting as spam/offensive, so it may not even be the blocker's fault, they are just choosing within a limited option and terminology. They can also be doing nothing avtually wrong.
the point is we can choose if we want to use anothers mutes,reports,etc
nostr is about choice, and that includes letting groups censor together, fact is without very effective curation nostr will be quickly over run with spam and people wont use it over bigtech, if we want to defeat bigtech we must do everything better, including moderation
I think my gripe is simply a lack of separation between reporting spam and muting. Reporting spam is useful across groups, I agree. But not so good with a mute list of genuine users, where muting is done for any number of personal/political disagreements.
I've used that function on spammers in my comments when I would've been happy to just block them. I'm not surprised this function is being abused though.