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Varun Srinivasan
@v
Here's a quick primer on how Warpcast Creator Rewards work. Will be adding this into the Rewards mini-app and keeping it updated as the algorithm changes.
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shoni.eth
@alexpaden
you've created an unwinnable social game where it pays to fit in not be yourself
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bertwurst
@bertwurst.eth
idk about that. I've been pretty unapologetically myself and I've been #winning.
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shoni.eth
@alexpaden
To each their own, but I want to unpack this at face value— Being ‘unapologetically yourself’ as an anonymous dog posting general positivity isn’t quite the same as what I mean. I show up as an identified person speaking directly about the topics I care most about: identity, AI, and written expression. That’s not chasing a trend— that’s niche in what’s supposed to be a crypto first network. I’m not saying people can’t win by being authentic. I’m saying the structure disproportionately rewards lowest-common-denominator vibes over thought or edge. Until people can look past “I earned my spot as winner” and realize the winners were chosen in a zero sum compounding factor we can’t really find common ground. If they really earned it, then re-earn it naturally.
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bertwurst
@bertwurst.eth
Got it. I hear what you're saying, and I appreciate you taking the time to explain your pov! I do think there’s room in the current system for different kinds of expression to be rewarded, though. Anecdotally, I’d say the Top 30 on the leaderboard rarely feel like “lowest common denominator” accounts. It definitely starts to degrade as you go further down, but so does the reward. Rewarding deeper contributions like yours should absolutely be the goal. But building a system that can recognize and fairly weigh that kind of nuance, while still being resistant to abuse and scalable across thousands of users… that’s a really hard problem.
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