They don't have any stakes in it; I literally see them playing with report buttons for memes and find those events on relays. Some of them even use the report button to flag posts (like hard comment), not with the intention to censor that person for their entire follower base. You are assuming that without any context. Yeah there may be some cases but not all. You will find so many examples of abuse or misunderstanding around this feature in this comment section. I was just talking to a guy here few hours ago.

Reports are content flags. Clients can do whatever they want with them. I think it's better to address this on the reporting screen of the sender. Otherwise, you will be run into issues with every client.

Example: Here is tanel flagging one of my post, it was a memes. He is one of my closest friend here. Do you really believe he wants me to be censored by his entire follower base. You are just assuming it. For this feature to work we have to teach every single client user how to use report & when. Not even mentioning basis & intentional abuse.

Correct. We have to educate users. That's why that appears in the profile. You can reply to the report and the reporter will receive a notification.

This sounds kind of harsh, but maybe Amethyst needs a way to view what your follows are reporting. If you follow someone who is reporting aggressively and you don’t like censorship then maybe you should unfollow instead of blaming the client settings.

I know this is complicated, but you have a proven track record. I hope you will also find the best solution for this. Good luck, man! 🍀

Thanks for the SATs! I do hope Tony's or somebody else's fork also bring some ideas to the table. I also hope somebody makes an app just to monitor reports, educate and call out reporting abusers. There is lots of work to do.

We will find a way 🤜🤛

What Iefan says is so true. Report seems like it applies to only a particular note that you feel others may not want to see/ avoid - not the entire feed of a user. Even on Amethyst, when I report a post, it's doesn't explicitly mention I'm reporting the user & not just the note.

Everyone knows this. I'm a Damus user too. Most reports on Damus are for 'Bad Content,' (post) and it's easily verifiable. But Vitor insists on using 'reports' as the main basis for censorship, not to mention how cheap they are. It will just suffocate Amethyst users. Just take a quick scroll, it's already happening, you'll see numerous examples right here. I was just talking to one . 🤞