In my normal flow I force myself to ignore bad content that I feel one way or the other about, to not have zap wars. But I make exceptions for scams.

optimism

Well, there's no getting around that the cost is the amount of sats you could have kept, but it might be rational to forego those for the sake of long-term reputational value.

The bigger problem, at least for me, is that I usually ignore slop, which means I won't see if it's peddling a scam at the end.

AskSN

Shitcoin/scam ads on SN - yay or nay, and why?

Well, there's no getting around that the cost is the amount of sats you could have kept, but it might be rational to forego those for the sake of long-term reputational value.

The bigger problem, at least for me, is that I usually ignore slop, which means I won't see if it's peddling a scam at the end.