Purple

Purple’s goal is to proliferate and expand the Farcaster protocol and ecosystem.

For a number of reasons, we will be doing disqualifications and taking a snapshot around 10 AM EST tomorrow. 

Funds will be distributed roughly 48 hours later after some minor due diligence has been completed.

Personally I think re-running the retrofunding round with a less game-able mechanic would lead to a better outcome. Manual disqualification (DQ) can cause bad vibes in legitimate builders pretty easily, especially since the rules are changing 1-2 days before the end of the round.

Why? It's harder to come up with DQ criteria than you might think. Will they check amps AND noice? Will they count only paid likes or both likes/recasts? What about someone who has 100 likes and only 5 of them are paid? What about someone whose cast was amped by someone else? Each of these is pretty arguable, and the nature of the game means you need to do the DQ criteria in secret and that lends itself to bad vibes IMHO.

I've been on the receiving end of that manual DQ process many times. I arrive in a new community, pumped up and ready to contribute only to be told my contributions aren't worth anything compared to "trusted contributors". It sucks.

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Startup artist seeking inspiration.  Champion of /bcard

are you saying that monetizing likes can have negative implications? we are in shambles