Okay hear me out. Nostr should have this option to mark an account here so that account would have to zap me to write to me or even mention me. This way if someone is rude to me then I set him for instance 1,000 sats per message and he has an option now to shut the fuck up and respect me or be rude but make me rich. This would solve trolling issue in 1 day. Of course rich people would still be rude to everyone but this wouldn't be anything new (for them I would set 1,000,000 sats or more per message)
Discussion
A dedicated hater would just open a new account to annoy you tho. It takes 2 seconds to make an alt.
But I do like the thinking.
I think this would make more sense on a different use case outside of microblogging. Like a substack clone or something. Set comments to 21sats, that way even a hater would have to pay to comment on an article, would probably reduce that sort of thing 99%
Supporters/subscribers who already pay can comment for free, and non-subscribers who want to comment would be happy to pay. Haters would have to pay, so their annoying comments are at least an earning
Web of Trust
Would web of trust be a thing in the substack/subscriber format?
WOT might have specific meaning here in Nostrverse while I realised I used it rather broadly
However this could work as follows. If someone is a subscriber then they comment for free (they already paid) and randos have to pay. Now let's say a subscriber follows someone and then that person can comment for half price
This would make following others mean more and complicate things because we follow others for lolz sometimes and it would enable them. We do not want this. A well-designed system of lists like Bluesky has or Twitter had could allow following others without building their reputation
But this sort of platform like substack a content creator may follow no-one or like 5 /10 /20 other content creators on there. It's not like microblogging. so not sure there's much of a web
This is more of an activitypub thing. Nostr is a broadcast and forget type of protocol. Messages get copied sent out to everyone. I can't block someone from seeing or replying to my messages, or block anyone from even following me, for that matter.
I remember the lack of blocks was an issue back on Twitter. This might blow up in Nostr's face when there are more users
Anyways it was just a wild idea