That's not a good solution. The relay software is not yet at standards where you can easily delete spam quickly. The users coming into Nostr shouldn't have to spend time picking which relay is filtering spam or not.

The solution here is requiring "follow requests" that cost 1 Satoshi or less. That will make it too expensive for bots to operate.

I also don't want anyone interacting with my profile unless I accept their follow request because I've noticed bots liking my notes in order to get noticed.

When billions are using Nostr it's going to be garbage just like X where you keep receiving lies and follows from those fake profiles with fake asian women profile pictures.

Use capitalism and the power of Bitcoin micro-payments to stop spam.

Make them PAY

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But why ?

From a user perspective I have no issues with reply guy .. the poor bot is simply creating dumb replies .. any relay who care to save on their storage shall figure out what they need to do ..

If #nostr censored bots , than it shall soon censor humans too ..

In general, I like it, but many newbies aren't set up with sats and a lightning wallet yet. That makes them unable to pay to follow and makes them leave. Until it is a little easier to setup a wallet and zap really easily, that would just drive people away.

The other problem is what happens when bitcoin sky rockets and a sat is real money? We don't want to force something that causes problems later. I suppose if it was optional, it might be OK.

That being said, I'd definitely be willing to pay a sat to follow someone.