A bit puzzled by the people who continue to insist that open channels without any gating or spam filtering would work just fine.

When I mention there would be a lot of spam, they tell me I'm wrong or they would manually weed it out.

We tried that for the last year and it didn't work. Very few channel owners / moderators wanted to do the drudgery of cleaning up spammy casts. It's not fun or rewarding. And that's logical on their end!

The reason web2 doesn't have this problem:

1. The successful companies like Meta or YouTube have *10s of thousands* of ops people moderating the platform; they also have massive data sets and AI models to help

2. They are centralized. They can *delete* spammy accounts and there's no recourse.

3. X / Twitter got rid of most of their ops people, so you see *a lot* more spam on there. Additionally, #hashtags on Twitter have been spammy for 10 years. Just look at the following link:

A bit puzzled by the people who continue to insist that open channels without any gating or spam filtering would work just fine.

When I mention there would be a lot of spam, they tell me I'm wrong or they would manually weed it out.

We tried that for the last year and it didn't work. Very few channel owners / moderators wanted to do the drudgery of cleaning up spammy casts. It's not fun or rewarding. And that's logical on their end!

The reason web2 doesn't have this problem:

1. The successful companies like Meta or YouTube have *10s of thousands* of ops people moderating the platform; they also have massive data sets and AI models to help

2. They are centralized. They can *delete* spammy accounts and there's no recourse.

3. X / Twitter got rid of most of their ops people, so you see *a lot* more spam on there. Additionally, #hashtags on Twitter have been spammy for 10 years. Just look at the following link:

https://x.com/hashtag/Ethereum

Have you considered reincarnating your spam algos in an optional mod bot form to augment human moderation?