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Once again the spam label algorithm has changed and it's nuking loads of users. It's literally getting insane now. 

Can devs please stop doing something?

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That's a great question, probably will need to monitor. I don't think they're published the data yet, last I read about it.

It's kind of annoying because many users are casting about how their follower count is significantly dropping, points for weekly rewards going down (I presume due to more users "disqualified" from contributing to points), yet we basically have zero visibility about our own status, yet.

Anyone who is super legit get placed in the spam algo?

I’m building a list to help folks get out of spam purgatory.

The Week in Review (a thread)

➼ Follower numbers going crazy, down by a lot 

➼ Rewards leaderboard scores are weird (probably points being removed because people are marked as spam)

➼ Overall engagement is down/strange

➼ Much confusion and people feel down on themselves and are taking it personally. Don’t. It’s not you.

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Thanks for your detailed analysis as always @pichi! 🙏😺 Always enjoy reading your details on these changes. Agree with you 100%, it's not really anyone's fault or worth blaming oneself here. The algos are changing and this is messing with both users who get labelled, and wider network who then gets punished due to engagement from others no longer counting.

Personally I'm against the entire idea of filtering our Follower counts. Everyone should expect a percentage of their Followers are spammers, I don't see what benefit there is to hide numbers by default. Instead, "enhanced insights" on my raw Follower count which include culled spammers might be interesting. But making that the default is just a very confusing thing to do IMHO.

Compound that with the constant changes to the algos, leading to daily significant swings in Follower count, and it now becomes an absolutely meaningless number IMHO: far more meaningless than just raw count with zero filtering, which many of us prefer. 🤷

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Seems the Farcaster spam algos were tweaked last week, which means more and more people are labelled as spam accounts. That has multiple knock-on effects, but mainly:

- All our follower counts are tanking downwards, as anyone labelled spam gets removed from our followers count.
- Our reward points are tanking, as their engagement gives zero points.