Oddbean new post about login | logout WoT on nostr should make use of replaceable events so that people can correct their mistakes if they vouch for a profile and later discover they’ve been duped. Alternatively, if 10 people get duped and vouch for a bad actor but just one person discovers it’s a bad actor, you should be able to attest that you’ve discovered this is a bad actor and crank up your confidence in your attestation so it carries more weight. This is why trust attestations and influence scores need a field for confidence.
Follow and mute lists are already replaceable. 1984s are also useful.
Yup I wonder if people would want a feature that alerts them if they’re following someone who has been reported or muted above some threshold number of times, so they can review and check if it was a careless follow otoh we wouldn’t want a system that could cause a positive feedback loop and result in an innocent account getting piled-on Just a thought
The reason WoT works is because it happens at the margins. Which means that if my social network wants to “pill on” on reporting someone, say because they want to cancel some Alex Jones character, they are free to do so and my tooling could reflect that my social circle has ostracized that npub. That wouldn’t have an effect on other parts of the social graph or the network at large or to other algorithms and tools. So yeah, I think it would be useful if tooling would report/flag accounts the user follows that their graph has indicated is suspicious.