Unfortunately there are so many of them that someone in your network would have had to mute each one for that to work (unless you're going to set your wot threshold above 0, which is probably not that common)
Hmmm mute isn't as good a signal as a follow 🤔 If nobody I follow also follows a bot is what I'm thinking
Would there be a way to add a sat cost to receive a message? For example, a guy like Elon Musk might want to put a 10,000,000 sat requirement for private messages, 1,000,000 sats for tags, and a 10 sat cost to comment on his notes? Would it be a viable?
I generally have my WoT set above 0, unless I am specifically looking to welcome new folks to Nostr. Does that mean I likely miss out on some people I may want to see? I am sure it does. But it also cuts out absolutely everything I don't want to see. The trade-off is worth it for me most of the time. When it's not, changing the setting to 0 is pretty quick and easy.