A pubkey could of course nonetheless use follow lists to signal not that the followed key is interesting, but that it is human and not a spammer. It's ultimately a matter of intent and convention. Bu...
Verifiers could choose whatever criteria they want and users could chose what verifiers they want to follow, but I think the purpose of excluding spambots is the most sound one.
There would be many ways of doing it (CAPTCHAS, government IDs, meeting people in person, checking membership to certain organization, you name it).
I don't think this mechanism would be ideal for checking "proper" accounts that don't post naughty stuff you don't like. Cutting out spambots is also most important, since what they generate is noise, corrupting all signal.
There would be many ways of doing it (CAPTCHAS, government IDs, meeting people in person, checking membership to certain organization, you name it).
I don't think this mechanism would be ideal for checking "proper" accounts that don't post naughty stuff you don't like. Cutting out spambots is also most important, since what they generate is noise, corrupting all signal.
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