You could use a NIP-56, kind 1984 event to report a pubkey using “paid shill” as a custom report type.
Your personalized WoT relay could gather all reports with this type (or similar types), discarding reports authored by pubkeys not in your WoT to mitigate gaming the system. If paid shills becomes a problem that people actually care about, they can start using this system.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/56.md
straycat / david
npub1u5…rldq3
2025-04-20 05:14:06
in reply to nevent1q…g5k7
Author Public Key
npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3Published at
2025-04-20 05:14:06Event JSON
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