People buying engagement are verifying their bad reputation.
Discussion
🎯
And hopefully, the people in my grapevine who are paying attention will be able and willing to flag the bad actors as such. (This would be an example of what I mean by explicit contextual trust attestations.)
How would you flag something like that? So we need a report option for "paid shill"?
You could use a NIP-56, kind 1984 event to report a pubkey using “paid shill” as a custom report type.
Your personalized WoT relay could gather all reports with this type (or similar types), discarding reports authored by pubkeys not in your WoT to mitigate gaming the system. If paid shills becomes a problem that people actually care about, they can start using this system.
Hmmmm
#asknostr