> just log into your sockpuppet and zap from there

Yikes. Of course.

I suppose if it got to that point where it's profitable enough for scammers to spend that much and to jump the additional hoops, then this community is doomed anyway.

I don't think I'd be able to find enough signal to want to stick around if I was surrounded by people falling for constant scams frequently enough to make them viable.

(I also suspect sockpuppeterized zapping could get automated quite cheaply too. So likely not even enough friction to call it a hoop to jump with a straight face.)

> Hence why I asked a while back if a "no boost" category would be possible to add.

Oh.. then you just log into your sockpuppet and zap from there.

(boosts are actually less damaging to algo than sockpuppet zaps)

optimism

FWIW, I have a clientside filter and I use it to:

1. only see a slop post once, downzap it once with a normal amount, 
2. be able to forgivingly downzap stackers with poor but non-harmful ideas (i.e. the Stockholm-syndrome fiat maxis) with a very minimal amount of sats so that I don't have to be annoyed, yet non-obtrusively let everyone have their own fantasy
3. completely hide content from stackers and territories that just anger me, so that I don't fight all the time

... and move on. I turn this off for scam posts, because scammers are predators. 

If we don't stand up to predators and let them roam among us freely, then we, stackers, are not a community, or at least not a welcoming one. The scammer is then just a wolf among wolves of a different tribe and any sheep dumb enough to walk into our territory will be ravaged. By them or by us. Either way. This is a possible outcome, and possibly the outcome stackers want. I hope that stackers can be honest about their hunger (for sats) then though. None of this high horse shit. Just be a fucking predator but be a man about it and show them pathetic little teeth.

 as the top post tho? What if there are 10 scams? Should they be the top 10 posts on SN? What if there are 100 scams? What if there are 20,000 scams?

Hence why I asked a while back if a "no boost" category would be possible to add.

If it really got that bad (however many to crowd out signal), I might be motivated to attempt to write such a filter myself.

AskSN

Shitcoin/scam ads on SN - yay or nay, and why?

> **Discoverable** as the top post tho? What if there are 10 scams? Should they be the top 10 posts on SN? What if there are 100 scams? What if there are 20,000 scams?

Fair point.

Hence why I asked a while back if a "no boost" category would be possible to add.
If it really got that bad (however many to crowd out signal), I might be motivated to attempt to write such a filter myself.