🔻 1. Deleted Casts or Engagements

If you delete a cast that had likes, recasts, or replies — or someone else deletes a cast that engaged with yours — you lose the points tied to those interactions.

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📉 2. Recalculation or Backfilling

The leaderboard often recalculates based on rolling timeframes (e.g., last 7 days). So if your old posts age out and new ones don’t perform as well, your score drops.

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🗑 3. Spam or Low-Quality Content Penalty

Some leaderboards are tied to systems that detect spammy behavior (e.g., too many low-effort replies, cast farming). These might quietly penalize your score or exclude certain actions.

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⚖️ 4. Bot or Sybil Detection

If the algorithm flags your interactions as inauthentic (e.g., farming likes from the same accounts, coordinating with alts), your points can be reduced or ignored. 
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This actually helped me gain a bit of insight so I'm hoping it helps anyone coming to my tl

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Yeah... At it's annoying... I just interact with the post I see on my feed... I think it's more safer that way... Since spammy account don't show up on feeds.
And use Vibeshift too... It's a mini app that notifies you if a spammy account follows you

Ever since I saw the post each account I want to interact with id first check to be solure it's not a spammy

Yeah... There are a lot of criteria for point reduction, engaging with an account that has been labeled as spammy too... is a part

Sharp 

Will go over it again n again to understand what popping on farcaster lol

This is a huge one,

I learned some great lessons from there,
thanks for sharing too.

Wow, I never knew this can affect my point, thanks for sharing this

Thanks for sharing I've learnt a couple things