Incentives.
Rather than have users sacrifice sats to downvote, have the poster stake sats with every post. If the post is not marked as spam within X days, they get the staked sats back.
Sphinx uses this concept, seems to work well.
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Cool, yes this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Anything that enables decentralized moderation.
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so we can all figure out how to best build the site. After I sprint out the next set of features, this will probably be what I do and I'll be looking for insights in dang's writing from years of moderating HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497174.