Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What should we do with egregious examples of squatted channels? I'm going to call this individual out since it's clearly squatting — @0xg — is sitting on a bunch of city channels and not actively building communities: /denver /la /losangeles /nyc /newyorkcity /newyork /sanfrancisco (Also the multiple variations of city names with no activity is clear squatting and when there are active communities in /los-angeles /sf /new-york.) A few other thoughts: 1. We have a no squatting policy for fnames and we allow ENS for a name that isn't governed by that policy. 2. We never advertised channels as something you buy and own forever. Has been centralized and experimental since we allowed anyone to create a channel last December. 3. I'm sympathetic to someone who is good faith trying to build a community, but that's not squatting. 4. Squatting is squishy, know it when you see, not deterministic. 5. Ultimately, squatters are massive negative externality on the network. It's parasitic, anti-social behavior.
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Satoshi Tomatomoto
@tomato.eth
I'd contact him giving him the choice between either actively moderating all of those channels or having them taken away. Now that the channels are literally unusable by anyone who hasn't been made a member, it's not unreasonable to expect channel owners to regularly grant membership based on some reasonable criteria.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
4 casts in 3 months. He's not active on Farcaster and has never tried to make an effort with most of those channels. Why would he change now?
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Satoshi Tomatomoto
@tomato.eth
He wouldn't. I'm just saying that's the justification you should use for seizing the channels, unless he replies saying he'll suddenly become active. Whatever you do here sets precedent.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
We're going to do the same thing all at once. Suddenly becoming active to save his channels is still squatting. Seems like general consensus is refund pro rata and reclaim.
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