Well, this is still an attack surface for a critic of the Network to point to; there should be some sort of informal mitigation strategy that we can at least point to and say “hey, we’re aware of this, and we did X to help the situation”.
Along with the curated blacklists - however independent thereof - would you see any value in establishing a site where farmers can self-report? For instance:
- How many vaults they’re running
- What persona they are farming on behalf of
- How much space they’re contributing
And stuff like that. It can even be a script that runs alongside a vault.
Once again, something like this would not be canonical, as it would be voluntary and self-reporting, but the benefits would be massive.
Imagine being able to contact these farmers to ask them to perform in unofficial experiments, gather volunteered data, and share types of hardware tips and tricks.
Even more interesting being the ability to require a registration - but a registration performed by submitting their vault data - uptime, etc. that otherwise would not be collected by the Network. This would only be for committed enthusiasts of course, but beneficial to the Network as a whole by providing a place to come together and talk about the issues that are facing vaults at the time.
Also - it’s something we can point to and say: “Here are the farmers - count them yourself”