The simplest way to deal with it is to just be more transparent and visibly mark profiles that have been redacted cuz they post nothing but garbage. You could even leave their posts in the feeds, to keep from breaking the threads, but put
REDACTED FOR BREAKING TOS
in place of their notes. That would also give everyone the opportunity to mute people you redact, so that they don't see The Horrors when using other clients.
Some people will be angry about that, but other people will be like, Thank you for shutting up the crappy people who try to litter the feed. What you shouldn't do, with a network full of software developers and system admins, is pretend like you didn't do anything and get caught and let it turn into a scandal.
I also actively suppress some posts, client-side. Not from particular people (yet), but kind 1 notes full of machine-produced random strings and stuff. There's a lot of sloppy content being generated and I try to filter it out. I make no claims for completeness.
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I've seen some of those notes in my custom client. It's unusable without some degree of filtering.
In general, if people in my sphere have hidden a note, I'm probably not going to want to see it either. If you decide it shouldn't be on the relay, I trust that I probably don't want to see it. If I'm being an asshole or hurting the relay somehow, boot me off ๐