I like the idea. Maybe the award tbing is a bit too mean. But a reply (for other anons) and a DM to the "donor" telling them this is a scam is brilliant. Triggering this when someone zaps the note is a much lighter approach than the "spam hunter" bots, which often end up spamming the relays harder than the scam bots.
Discussion
A public award to the top donor once a week and the rest DMs?
DM: you zapped 200sats to a scammer but don't fret. The current contendor for spam-sponsor of the week @... threw 12000 sats at them. Follow to learn who won every Monday at 12.
Sadly DMs in nostr are a mess.
I might make that list / award with auto zaps 🤣
I still think the public award idea might be a bit too harsh. In my head, a "top donor" is a deeply Catholic Irish grandma who somehow joined Nostr because her maxi grandson Seamus (that lives in her basement; but is definitely buying a Lambo with all his holdings) told her to. Nostr Grandma who falls for scams must be protected at all costs. 🤣
I'm worried that publicly calling victims out might drive people away from Nostr instead of correcting their behaviour. Maybe we could post a public message with a meme, without outing the donor. Something like: "Oh crap, another anon fell for a scam on Nostr" (random meme) – Top zap to scammers of the month: 12k. Kind of like what the UTXO bots do.
And the DM can be exactly as you said. Agreed. Well, NIP-17 is still there, even though lots of GiftWrapped messages never get read by anyone, lol.