And having such a relay policy in the first place assumes that the reason for muting someone is always a negative thing. It is not.
Discussion
What if a mute doesn't count if you still follow the person? Would that mitigate the issue?
It would be better, but I still don't like using "mute" as the criteria because mute does not equal spam.
so what if lots of people mute
then you might have mute-bots to silence someone
so let's take some sort of weighted graph of follows
great, we've re-invented the algo but with censorship as the goal
perhaps freedom is the answer
let people host whatever they want to host and mute whoever they want to mute
What if I make a relay that considers a person more of a spammer if they are being followed by more people?