Replying to Avatar mike

An interesting ethical dilemma.

I posted yesterday about a scam account that made contact with me:

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I noticed the account is still posting today.

If this were a centralised platform, I would report the account and forget about it. But on NOSTR there is no central authority. I am tempted to post replies to each message they post linking to my scam alert post, but this would be nearly impossible to maintain in the long term.

I took the time and effort, and have the technical capabilities to verify a person, but not everybody does. In this decentralised world, scammers are free to scam unimpeded, bar the few kickbacks they get from people like me.

I was theoretically comfortable with this concept until this event.

Now I’m not sure how I feel?

Web of trust should work both ways - not just for showing you notes in your web of trust but warning you about users fpagged by members of your web of trust.

In my web of trust clients I only see notes from people I follow or people that they follow.

It would be good if my clients also displayed an indication if someone I followed had marked someone as spam or scam.

Decentralised trust filtering should work both ways. For both positive and negative filtering.

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