Anything to reduce systemic noise means a better quality signal from every legitimate account on the blockchain.

It’s a fine balance between protecting and encouraging voice and the antithesis of censorship... but I think a decentralized/democratized approach to the problem of noise is only going to boost the value of all honest accounts on the network.

I have been sorting my follower/and following lists using @peakd’s front end this week. It’s been quite surprising to see the number of spam accounts that followed me. As well it’s very interesting to note the inactive accounts.

A change to how blacklists are currently functioning will make the system faster, more efficient, and less centralized. It is a definite must and I think broadly that’s going to translate into less noise, better content, and better behaviour over all.

If we can continue to move the Hive Blockchain in this direction some of those inactive accounts will become active again (the good ones) and retention will go up as well.

Count me in. I will vote with all my accounts: @wil.metcalfe @adventureready @beachready