Trust the press? In this day and age? When the number of page impressions are clearly prioritised over maintaining even the slightest semblance of journalistic integrity and the articles generally appear to give the impression that the given publication is merely a mouthpiece for the vested interests of whichever billionaire owns it? It's likely that very few people become genuinely informed of anything by absorbing modern media content, aside from perhaps what the 1% would prefer the herd to think.
Sure there are limitations to the extents and the aspects but we don't live in absolute darkness, do we? For deciding to go short on a digital asset, sometimes even rumors are enough. Actually, it is part of the sectarianism, I'm not comfortable with. We don't live in such a terrible world in which you just can't be informed that people are getting defrauded by a bunch of stupid collided pools, it is just absurd, having such a presumption as serious design criteria for any real-world system.
Believe it or not, there is no, zero, long-range reorg threat to bitcoin in foreseeable future and it has nothing to do with full nodes.
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As such, I think I'll stick to form and say that this is yet another one of your ideas I won't be lending my support to. 
you should reconsider, because it is the right thing to do, seriously. 
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My point: A full node keeps its own user from being defrauded (and become the example of a victim for the press) not bitcoin as a whole. Pools are not afraid of full nodes, they are afraid of losing funds because of the obvious social penalties like price falling near zero as a consequence of any misdemeanor.
Pools don't have to be "afraid" of nodes, they just have to know unquestioningly that should they choose to build a chain upon a block which the full nodes won't validate, they'll be forked off the network and mining a worthless chain.
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And should be afraid of being forked-off, yes? NO!