We give each post on Nostr a content score. This score is given by the amount of engagement on a post. Likes, replies, reposts, zaps all have different scores. Hope this helps
Discussion
Does the content scoring system take into account the reputation of the pubkey issuing the like, reply, zap, etc?
No, content scores are independent from the reputation of pubkeys. If a user with almost no trust ranking still has a lot of engagement on a post, they will still appear in the trending list
Have you seen any instances where a bad actor promotes spam content via engagement with an army of bots?
I’m guessing this has not been much of a problem yet, but we can anticipate that it likely will become a problem at some point.
I’m thinking about how best to apply centrality scores like nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy ‘s TrustRank or my GrapeRank to sort content. These scores can be personalized, but they take a lot of work and computation and might be too burdensome to expect every client to implement independently. So scores could be calculated elsewhere and then exposed via API to clients like Primal who employ them in content curation.
happens all the time. profiles relays are filled with fake social graphs