Thanks for the insight. Looked up "WoT score." What a terrible idea that is.

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Do you have any criticism? It is a score that shows, how many people, that you are following, appreciate your content vs how many people you follow block your content. What part of it seems terrible to you?

I can understand the desire to be rid of spammers. But WoT? It's easy to see how such a system will reinforce and amplify what the dull majority already believes. It will also reward empty-headed or disingenuous people-pleasers who are skilled in regurgitating whatever it is that most people want to hear this week. And it will punish people who go against the grain, like Satoshi. Diogenes or Socrates would surely have "scored" badly.

Not to mention it doesn't even stop spammers, as there will inevitably be that one guy who follows that blatent LLM account.

It actually happened during the last wave of bots XD

The solution is manual moderation, but with transparency and voluntary adoption.