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 we are getting killed by team ReplyGuy and @fiatjaf is babbling about some random nonsense like it is none of his concern ...

i understand that NOSTR is decentralized and nobody actually has any power to make anybody else do anything but isn't his Brazilian ass supposed to at least provide some guidance to the rest of you rejects ?

Brazil Boy has to tell relay rejects to stop accepting events from anybody who has never passed a captcha test 

then for every 50 times you get reported you have to re-take the captcha ... unless somebody automates reporting ... then additional measures have to be taken for that and so on ...

but you people must be at least trying something !

@Little Mikey D  
 You can enable "Settings > Content > Avoid spam from unsafe relays (SpamSafe)".   And then you should go to your relays and turn on "SpamSafe" only for relays which you believe are filtering out spam.   Then you will be relying on the relays to solve this problem.

The side effect is that for relays that don't filter out spam, you won't get any spam, but you also won't get any messages from people you don't follow (Soon that will be a 2-degree web of trust, but right now it is just direct followers).


Right now the filter.rhai spam filtering script doesn't look up metadata, so the spam filtering script doesn't have any way to know the messages are coming from "Reply Guy", but maybe we can make some enhancements there.  Then you can filter these client side. 
 didn't understand any of that but glad at least somebody is trying to solve the problem.