A bot spammer is a lot more likely to be willing to zap "for attention" than a newbie. Also, you don't get to decide who has the right to write.

Instead of spending so much time and energy trying to figure out ways to censor content and effectively make Nostr more vulnerable and unsafe to use, the tech-inclined minds could focus on developing more sophisticated client-side tools that empower users to curate their own feed themselves, the way they like. 

 How would you solve the spam problem (without it being "censorship")? 

 I just told you. Give users client-side more sophisticated solutions that allow them to curate their feed by themselves. Right now I can mute words, works OK at the basic level. Being able to block regular expressions would be even better. 

 Blocking by regex would be dope  

 FYI, because I set the minimum WoT score to 1, I missed this note at first. 

 Spammers would just start producing variant messages that won't match a regex 

 It was just a very simple example of an improvement that would require little cost while empowering users and respecting their freedom, compared to the false solutions commonly discussed. 

 How to solve it on the relay side without blocking newbies? 

 I don't want any relay-side "solutions". That's what would make Nostr unsafe to use and, in fact, threaten its very existence. 

 Storage and bandwidth are limited, you can't give unlimited write access to everyone. 

 I hope we can do p2p between clients in the future, skipping the relay part 

 That would be my absolute favorite option. But as long as we run on relays, I want relays to do exactly what their name says: to relay. They're not called "filters", "funnels" or "publishers".