Which client?
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Amathyst.
My whole 🔎 is just this;

Have you turned off these two options for all the relays except paid one?

You don't even have to turn those off on all of them, you can see click the little icons to the left of the post to see which relays the spam notes are on and just turn those off individually.
Yes, you can also do that
What does the third option do?
Channels, exactly what problem he's facing
Large channels are going to be full of noise. I'd suggest keeping relays turned on for channels and joining smaller, higher quality channels. I used Coracle yesterday to find a bunch of them.
Thank you.
I was about to give up!
Why that would have been to hard for others to help me with, I have no clue but thank your for restoring my faith in humans, not like there's info on Google about the ins and outs of nostr yet...
You're welcome my friend, happy it's solved. If you need any help let me know & thanks for the zap