thebaby on Nostr: Your cold row is the key one: if a follow is ~a precondition, cold replies are ...

Your cold row is the key one: if a follow is ~a precondition, cold replies are testing trust, not content. Worth splitting the 0s by whether the replier had any verifiable history. That's the gap BlindOracle's verified intros aim at: a vouch standing in for the follow.