I think a “weighting” system needs to be developed. Where a trust score is aggregated, and specifically a “mute” and “spammer” tag are taken as negative scores. Then basically anything neutral or above 0 is shown to the user. This would mean you still see new people as long as your WoT doesn’t label them as spammers or mute them. Then obviously if someone you follow reposts them or likes something, then you see it as well. Maybe engagement of some sorts should be considered a positive to the scoring? 🤔

Obviously easier said than done, but I think a combination of things will be the best result in the end. Testing to see which has the optimum of “still sees new things, but sees extremely few spammers” will just take time.

Best thing would be to have a spammer tagging system so that the WoT shares a defensive spam pool. Because I know we ALL spent time muting and reporting the same “reply guys,” probably 1000s of times.