Warpcast

lol... back to farcaster and still this kind of garbage all over I guess. Who the fuck cares, man. Shit. Just fucking live your life, quit giving a fuck about this shit. 

Going to be steadfastly unfollowing anyone doing this engagement bullshit or re-casting anyone doing this engagement bullshit.

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It's obviously part of core marketing.

To be fair, I always criticize this strategy; it may give a boost in the short term, but it has so many toxic network effects. 

Such as:

- creates false narratives
- incentives hype, false advertisements, and placeholder content
- corrupts the organic interactions graph
monetizes interactions that further corrupt the organic interactions  graph
- creates total fucked-up retention patterns
- pollutes any kind of analytics 

Just to name a few...

It might be a play to gain farcaster[.]xyz rewards system, the user got on top pretty quickly. 

I do think that ultimately many decisions will push the platform towards more engagement farming, farcaster pro is just another push towards making app rewards long-term.

I did previously enumerated the cons of rewards ( https://farcaster.xyz/andrei0x309/0x587b97cc )

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we can mold the culture of farcaster by relentlessly shaming this kind of behavior