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 NOSTR IS DOUBLING ITS CONTENT MODERATION TEAM FROM ZERO TO ABSOLUTELY ZERO!

If you’re interested in this job please apply; we’d love to hear from you! 😎

dev@null.com 
 I would like to be dictator please 🤝 
 i've heard a lot of people in bitcoin are looking for a dictator,.. u might have some luck there 
 some are even longing for a monarchy ☠️ 
 He might try to introduce KYC in bitcoin for corporations.

Nobody is looking for dictators though. Only better decision making and less dysfunctionality. 
 i'm half-joking

but you'd be surprised how often i've been asked to be a dictator, how often i've needed to actively resist getting more power and responsibilities, people really like their power structures even where they make no sense 
 power corrupts an open system 🙏 
 🍆🥔 
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dev/null เป็นไฟล์พิเศษในระบบปฏิบัติการ Unix และ Linux ที่มักเรียกกันว่า "bit bucket" หรือ "black hole" ซึ่งหมายความว่าอะไรก็ตามที่เขียนลงไปในไฟล์นี้จะถูก "ทิ้ง" และหายไปโดยไม่มีการจัดเก็บหรือประมวลผล
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#siamstr 
 I used to forward my email ton/dev/null

It was the probably the best spam and phishing filter I've ever used.  
 Ich würde gerne dem Staat alle privaten Nachrichten zukommen lassen die potentiell gefährlich für den Staat sein könnten damit er sich wehren kann. Ein bisschen Mitleid hat man ja doch.../s 
 👋 
 -273ºC🤔. 
 I see what you did there, nostr:nprofile1qqsdquypg5u9j3fevxglgflpx34m2nyfgy07lpaax3r4zzczwct3ldspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkc6t5v4ejummjvuhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz775jdqe! Doing something tricky with moderation at 0.15 Kelvin.

Are you overclocking Rabble? 
 That is exponential growth!!! The are will get saturated fast this way 😏  
 🤣🤣🤣
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 I quit your stupid not moderation team, I will be not moderating independently from now on.  
 @npub1ztyqtftdkt6q36gux3xptn4ldv7sdpqka3rvhvlmna50e9t7kx4qk5kfjr
 
 Please correct the email: it’s dev@null.org 
 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹 
 Not Bullshit enough! We need to 10x this bitch. 
 tbf, relays and platforms operating without moderation of illegal stuff are taking real legal risks. 
 Or every users is a moderator  
 FINALLY! 
 Thank god. This place is going to shit. I hope the ban hammer gets use liberally.  
 3 * 0 is #morebetterest 
 who's paying for the new hires? 
 LOL - ok, almost snarfed my coffee on that one!!

😃  
 🚀 
 STAY HUMBLE AND STACK ZAPS  
 Negative 0 moderators! 
 I'm interested, here follows my resume (written with the help pf chat GPT of course, who does their own resumes anymore?)

# Resume  
**Name**: **The Moderation Maestro (I Guess?)**  
**Email**: @PleaseLetMeCensorSomething  
**Phone**: 📞 +1 (555) FedUpWithThis  
**Website**: www.CanYouPleaseStopPostingThat.com

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### **Objective**  
Desperately seeking a job as a Moderator for Nostr, the world’s most “decentralized” platform, where I’m given the *responsibility* to moderate absolutely nothing because the protocol, in its infinite wisdom, allows everyone to post everything. I’m here to bring a semblance of order… but let’s be real, I’m probably just here to watch chaos unfold in real-time and regret my life choices.

---

### **Skills & Expertise**  
- **Frustrated Censorship Enthusiast**: Trained to remove harmful content. Too bad the protocol refuses to let me do anything except watch people post conspiracy theories, spam, and a bizarre amount of cat photos.  
- **Tolerating Chaos**: Can handle witnessing unfiltered, uncensored mayhem on a daily basis—when people say “the wild west of the internet,” I’m now convinced they meant Nostr.  
- **Sarcastic Interventions**: Highly skilled at attempting to moderate only to realize I have absolutely zero control over what gets posted. It’s like trying to catch water with a sieve.  
- **Expert in Involuntary Time-Wasting**: Spent hours trying to figure out how to "censor" posts… and then realized there’s literally no way to censor anything. It’s *so* freeing.  
- **Immaculate Patience**: Equipped with infinite patience, as I must constantly watch people post whatever they want, including a meme of a cat wearing a tinfoil hat discussing the moon landing. And there’s nothing I can do about it.  
- **Surreal Moderation**: Capable of muting my own frustration and typing “Please, for the love of all that is decent, stop posting these things” in a public forum... knowing full well it won’t make a damn difference.

---

### **Experience**  

**Head of Moderation (lol, like that matters)**  
Nostr Platform (Where I Can’t Actually Moderate Anything), 2023 – Present  
- Attempted to block spam. Failed. Not because I didn’t try hard enough, but because Nostr doesn’t care about spam. Why? Because Nostr said **“freedom”** and **“no censorship”**—which I suppose means letting bots run rampant is somehow empowering.  
- Tried removing toxic users. Ha! Joke's on me, there’s no way to remove toxic users. The best I can do is sigh loudly in my office and hope the internet fixes itself.  
- Formulated policies that could have worked if only I had the *slightest* control over what gets posted. Spoiler: I have zero control.  
- Had multiple breakdowns trying to decide if it was more ethical to ban someone for posting a racist meme, or if I should just “let it slide” because freedom. (It slid. Always.)

**Certified (But Totally Powerless) Social Media Moderator**  
Some Random Group I Was Asked to Help (2020-2022)  
- In an unmoderated group with 10,000 members, I was given the noble task of keeping things civil. Ha! That lasted about as long as a vegan at a Texas BBQ.  
- My role consisted of watching the complete breakdown of any social structure and being completely powerless to stop it because—surprise!—Nostr has no central authority. So when someone posted a “flat Earth is real” meme, I just sat there, wondering why I was given this responsibility.  
- Established weekly “calm down” meetings, which were immediately interrupted by people posting cat videos and unsolicited political rants. My attempts at moderating were met with laughter, and I was forced to hit "mute" on my emotions.

---

### **Education**  
**Bachelor’s Degree in Letting Go of Control**  
University of Internet Chaos, 2021 – Present  
- Majored in trying to **moderate** everything, only to find out that **nothing can be moderated**.  
- Thesis: "How to Fail at Being a Censor in a Decentralized World That Literally Won't Let You Do Anything."  
- Minor in sarcasm and critical thinking (because I sure need it).

---

### **Certifications**  
- **Certified “Moderator” (Not Really)** – I’m here to watch, not to act. You’ll never find a certificate that gives me the power to *actually* moderate on Nostr, so just call me “certified” in hopelessness.  
- **Advanced Freedom Advocate** – Hold on to your keyboards, because I just let everyone post whatever they want, no matter how wildly inappropriate it is.  
- **Unqualified Censorship Enthusiast** – I’ve read every single post in a thread and still have zero ability to remove any of it. 

---

### **References**  
**Anonymous Nostr User** – “Yeah, I posted something outrageous the other day, and guess what? No one could stop me. Thanks, Nostr!”  
**The Bots I Was Supposed to Block** – “We’re still here. And you can’t do anything about it.”  
**My Own Sanity** – “I used to care about this job. Then I realized that no matter what I do, I’m just watching the internet spiral. It’s a full-time, unpaid existential crisis.”

---

### **Fun Fact**  
I once spent a solid two hours trying to figure out how to ban a user who posted a 3-minute rant about Bigfoot, and the only thing I accomplished was my personal crisis of conscience. Spoiler: I couldn't ban them. They’re still out there, posting Bigfoot conspiracies. And it’s glorious.

---

### **Closing Statement**  
I’m truly excited to join Nostr as a moderator, where I’ll be given all the responsibility and none of the power. If you need someone to watch people post unmoderated content and then silently weep into their keyboard, I’m your person. Let's make the chaos as fun as possible... until I inevitably break.
 
 Do I need a CV, resumé, or does my LinkedIn suffice? I can provide IMDB as well.  
 “Nostr is..” as if there was some central authority hehe. 🤣 
 Maduro:  i am here! 
 Lol tough, but fair! 
 OMG I feel so much safer now 
 Twice as safe 
 FINALLY 
 I am my own content moderation team, defining the content I want to see, and rejecting the content I'd rather not. 
 I send you some sats to pay for the team  
 Who will protect the children? 
 They will form roaming gangs to protect themselves. 
 I'm interested. 
 I'm here to say nigger  
 i'm definitely not promising zero moderation on my relay

the only reason we don't have instance politics here like on mastodon is that people can send their posts to multiple relays, and some will probably keep it around, it's more like a kind of regulatory arbitrage