Or perhaps some relays can use the Stacker News model.
Pay a sat to post a note.
For spammers this will quickly become pricey especially as the network grows.
For regular users it's a tiny tip to the relay runner.
I imagine an implementation where you can choose your relays per note so you could dedicate your highest quality content to those relays and your shitposting can be on the free ones.
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