Just in time for our iOS review, spammers like @ytmeta4 are getting through Zap Cooking’s curation by posting YouTube videos with food-related words. Deeply frustrating, but it’s showing us where we need to improve.
Tools like Brainstorm are helpful, but when an account is new, it takes time for community signals to build a fuller picture. We need to catch this faster. I’m going to take action to improve the discovery feed, and I want the community’s feedback on how we do it.
Maybe repeated mutes, blocks, or spam reports temporarily take an account out of discovery and trigger a review. We’d need safeguards so a few people couldn’t abuse that.
Free speech matters. So does the freedom to decide what gets attention in the spaces we build. If you walk into a room and start yelling over everyone, people stop listening. Why should spam get a free pass here?
How would you handle it? What signals would you trust?
seth / Seth
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2026-09-28 15:49:50 UTC
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