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PSA, translation dictionary from in-group effective tribal slogans into boring inter-subjective nuances. "Filters don't work and they also damage Bitcoin" = "Mempool-standardness policies never could and never will prevent spam inclusion completely, and with reduction in their adoption and proliferation of out-of-band payments, mining centralization and preferential peering, their efficacy is bound to decrease, especially versus well-established spam types. Arguments to dismantle them (fee estimation, block-propagation speed, better L2 behavior during race conditions), while still largely theoretical, will someday become more practical." "Filters do work and they can't damage Bitcoin" = "Mempool-standardness policies, when largely adopted by mining and relaying nodes, did prove effective, historically and practically, in rate-limiting spam, especially not-well-established types, due to marginally increased friction for propagation and direct template-exclusion by hashers. Arguments to dismantle them (fee estimation, block-propagation speed, better L2 behavior during race conditions) may eventually develop practical implications, but they are still negligible today." "Filters are censorship-bait" = "Mempool-standardness policies, while legitimate free-market choices by node-runners in themselves, could be abused in the future by government attackers in order to perform financial censorship, just like block-validity rules (with a 51% attack). The former are easier to implement and change than the latter, thus they are more easily extended to filter more cases, thus they may invite censors to try and use them for their censorship goals, which are by definition very dynamic and content-dependant." "Filters are censorship-resistance" = "Mempool-standardness policies, while prone to be abused in the future by government attackers in order to perform financial censorship, just like just like block-validity rules (with a 51% attack), are legitimate free-market choices by node-runners. They are easier to implement and change than then block-validity rules , and way easier to route around, thus way less effective for censors to try and use them for their censorship goals. Spam-filled blocks would be a more effective way to perform censorship than coinbase-only empty blocks." "X is a liar" = "X disagrees with me on a topic that I consider so relevant and clear-cut, that I have a hard time believing they may be this wrong, even after many attempts at correcting them: I'm inclined to think they may be pretending for hidden reasons."