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+# Web-of-Trust: Detailed Flow + Examples
+
+This document expands on `docs/moderation/web-of-trust.md` with a concrete view of
+how trust seeds, admin lists, and F1 thresholds interact during moderation
+scoring. It is intended for operators and developers who need to reason about
+why a piece of content was blurred, autoplay-blocked, or hidden.
+
+## Key concepts (quick recap)
+
+- **Trusted seeds**: A baseline set of pubkeys used to bootstrap trust for
+  anonymous/default visitors. Seeds come from the Super Admin and active editor
+  lists; fallback seeds are used only if those lists cannot be hydrated.
+- **Trusted contacts (F1)**: The viewer's follow list (plus seeds for
+  anonymous/default visitors). Only F1 accounts count as trusted reporters.
+- **Admin lists**: NIP-51 `30000` lists, specifically:
+  - `bitvid:admin:blacklist` → hard-hide when subscribed.
+  - `bitvid:admin:whitelist` → boosts Discovery ranking but never overrides
+    moderation gates.
+- **Thresholds**:
+  - Blur thumbnail: `DEFAULT_BLUR_THRESHOLD` trusted `nudity` reports.
+  - Block autoplay: `DEFAULT_AUTOPLAY_BLOCK_THRESHOLD` trusted `nudity` reports.
+  - Hide author: `DEFAULT_TRUSTED_MUTE_HIDE_THRESHOLD` trusted mutes.
+  - Hide video: `DEFAULT_TRUSTED_SPAM_HIDE_THRESHOLD` trusted spam reports.
+
+## Precedence (what wins)
+
+1. **Personal blocks first**: If a viewer blocks an author or reporter, the
+   author is hidden and that reporter's reports are ignored.
+2. **Admin blacklist second**: If the viewer is subscribed to
+   `bitvid:admin:blacklist`, entries there are hard-hidden and their reports are
+   suppressed before thresholds are evaluated.
+3. **F1 thresholds last**: Only after the first two checks do we apply trusted
+   report/mute thresholds for blur, autoplay block, and hide decisions.
+
+## How trust seeds are selected (bootstrap)
+
+For anonymous/default visitors (or when no follow graph is available), the
+trusted seed set is built as follows:
+
+1. Start with the Super Admin pubkey.
+2. Add active editors from the access control list (if available).
+3. If (1) and (2) produce no seeds, fall back to `DEFAULT_TRUST_SEED_NPUBS`.
+
+This means Super Admins and editors are not automatically blocked; they are used
+as trusted anchors when computing F1-based counts for viewers without a follow
+list. Blocking still follows the precedence rules above.
+
+## Example flows
+
+### Example 1: Anonymous visitor, no live admin lists available
+
+- Access control list fails to hydrate in time.
+- `DEFAULT_TRUST_SEED_NPUBS` is used as the seed set.
+- A video has 3 `nudity` reports from those seed accounts.
+
+Result:
+- Thumbnail is blurred if `DEFAULT_BLUR_THRESHOLD` is 3.
+- Autoplay is blocked if `DEFAULT_AUTOPLAY_BLOCK_THRESHOLD` is 2.
+- No hard hide unless trusted mute/spam thresholds are met.
+
+### Example 2: Logged-in viewer with personal blocks
+
+- Viewer follows 200 accounts (F1).
+- Viewer has blocked `npub_author_x`.
+- `npub_author_x` appears in a video card.
+
+Result:
+- The author is hidden immediately (personal block precedence).
+- Reports from `npub_author_x` are ignored in trusted counts.
+
+### Example 3: Admin blacklist + trusted reports
+
+- Viewer is subscribed to `bitvid:admin:blacklist`.
+- `npub_spammer` is listed there.
+- A video from `npub_spammer` has 1 trusted spam report.
+
+Result:
+- The video is hard-hidden due to the admin blacklist.
+- The spam report count does not matter because blacklist suppression runs
+  before thresholds.
+
+### Example 4: Trusted mute hide
+
+- Viewer follows `npub_a`, `npub_b`, and `npub_c`.
+- Both `npub_a` and `npub_b` have muted `npub_author_y`.
+- `DEFAULT_TRUSTED_MUTE_HIDE_THRESHOLD` is 1.
+
+Result:
+- The author is hidden (trusted mute count ≥ 1).
+- The badge reads: `Hidden · 2 trusted mutes` and a “Show anyway” override is
+  available.
+
+### Example 5: Mixed nudity + spam reports
+
+- Viewer follows 50 accounts.
+- A video has:
+  - 2 trusted `nudity` reports
+  - 3 trusted `spam` reports
+- Thresholds are: blur=3, autoplay=2, spam hide=3.
+
+Result:
+- Autoplay is blocked (nudity reports meet autoplay threshold).
+- Thumbnail is **not** blurred (nudity reports below blur threshold).
+- Video is hidden (spam reports meet the spam hide threshold).
+
+## Troubleshooting checklist
+
+- Confirm the viewer’s follow list (F1) is populated and hydrated.
+- Verify admin list subscriptions are active for the viewer.
+- Check whether any personal blocks exist for the author or reporters.
+- Compare trusted counts to the configured defaults in
+  `config/instance-config.js`.
+
+## See also
+
+- `docs/moderation/web-of-trust.md`
+- `docs/moderation/README.md`
+- `docs/instance-config.md`