I’m surprised so many users are still getting hit with spam. If you’re using Jumble, you can turn on this shield to help filter it out.
Discussion
Can that be set by default?
Considering new users and those who haven't followed anyone yet, enabling it by default might not be appropriate.
the onboarding problem... need to have some decent recommendations or a mechanism to figure out how to generate a good one out of a set of known trusted users
i'm working on a project for my paid gig where it analyses user profile data to make recommendations of possible good follows for a person. one of the things it does is compare the text of posts made by users to create a kind of distance metric of similarity.
i'm just reading about TLSH and Nilsimsa proximity hashes, used in anti-spam systems. probably, using such a thing, you could generate a 2d map of users by their proximity to each other using tensors and then scattered across that you could pick out some samples on several different points in the map and then from there the user could explore the connections from the ones they like
this seems to me like something nobody has done yet
Asking around on this, but you'd know! For trusted users as you defined:
-You are in my trusted users and you post "Good morning".
-Larry is also in my trusted users and he replies "Same to you".
-Curly is NOT in my trusted users and he replies to Larry "Screw you all".
-Moe is in my trusted users and he replies to Curly "Shut up man" .
Will I see Moe's reply to Curly and also Curly's reply to Larry? Even though Curly is outside my trust? I'm guessing yes to keep the thread together, but I haven't actually tested it, not even sure how to.