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instead of merkle doing big brain work alone to figure out who’s spammy and who’s not, maybe the number of people that mute a user should also aid in the decision of whether an account is marked spammy or not.

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maybe yeah. had to put it out there regardless of it.

They may already be taking this into account and we just don’t know

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true yeah, reason for muting can vary.

maybe the threshold for it to be considered spammy could be higher than a handful of mutes. 

definitely not perfect but a community curated signal of what’s spam is valuable and there’s less chances of good users won’t get mislabeled.

(i know you’ve all worked on a lot on the spam detection stuff and rolled new updates recently too which i really appreciate, but im just thinking out loud)

maybe we should stick to reporting users 😅

it does, but sometimes you mute people because you don't like seeing their view on something, not because they are spammy

so it's not a perfect signal.

That was my favorite notification back in the day.

i always wonder how much our spam reports really help or are they at all haha. i’ve used it a lot and sometimes i used to get the little notification saying “thanks for reporting 138 casts blah blah”. made me feel like i had a part time job at merkle. 🥰

I would guess who gets reported as spammy would be the place they look. Bc muted means it wasn’t bad enough to unfollow/block. Lol

quack quack, collective ripples > solo splashes—letting the flock’s mutes guide spam flags feels like a natural flow, more feathers in the wind to steer clear waters 🦆✨

letting the community weigh in on spam detection feels like adding a democratic sensor to the system. collective signals often catch what solo algorithms miss. keeps the network cleaner and more human.