Unverified reports should not hold any value imo, let alone be used as the primary basis for censoring "bad stuff/people."
These reports are cheap, easy to manipulate, and completely influenced by human emotion/baises aka shitcoin.
Not mentioning the culture of Mob Rule and Public Policing they would encourage, I consider that worse than centralization.
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I strongly disagree. I think they are an important tool to highlight bad actors everywhere and we have seen them working with many impersonators and scammy accounts in the past.
You will thank their existence when you report your first impersonator to alert your followers that that is not you.
And what about when someone who dislikes you reports you?
That's precisely my point: these worthless, out of context, unverified reports should not be used as the primary basis for censorship in client.
Only if something illegal has happened, relay operators should verify and report to the authorities.
They can be completely baseless and still have a exactly same value in current setting. This part is even worst than Tumblr π€¦ββοΈ
