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matthewb
@matthewb
rewards leaderboard has been a success so far imo by rewarding consistent posters and tapping into innate human competitiveness. users yearn for leaderboards and points. a few unfortunate side effects so far with regards to content on the timeline: - direct incentive to lazily copy paste content while scrolling twitter and pass it off as your own - inauthentic accounts mirroring the interests of popular accounts to farm engagement - incentive for top level casts > replies which may blunt conversational impulse - rings of accounts making quid pro quo agreements to boost each other’s content been thinking a lot about online identity and how we value content post- gen ai, and the rewards leaderboard has been an excellent prompt to explore these ideas. writing coming soon ish.
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Colin Charles
@bytebot
Agree with point 1. This is unfortunate. From one standpoint it’s kind of fraudulent, but if you’re a meme-er it’s probably ok. 2 is a problem. 3 might actually have a lot to do with noice - why reply when you can just recast with a comment (it’s also a very X level behavior). I like to reply, and realise I’ve paid the most noice tips for that! 4 - I think we could use better algorithmic labeling to ensure that these are stamped out pretty quickly. Won’t disagree, rewards/leaderboard are nice but I’m not primarily here for that. And in the last week I also realized that people in sanctioned countries can’t play - so they’re truly here, incentive free!
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Apurv
@apurvkaushal
leaderboard has personally increased my tendency to cast as well, but I feel in the long term it's harmful. Good for bootstrapping only. Status as a reward is better - power badge etc. The more intrinsic an incentive system, the more organic & sustainable it is (from all my experience guiding clients through airdrop programs)
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OluShey.Crpyt
@theonlysheylex
The leaderboard worked, more people are showing up and posting. But it’s also made the feed feel a bit off. Too much recycled content, less real talk. Makes you wonder a whole lot of things.
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Johnson
@johnson
Unfortunately pretty much all forms of incentivisation have these side effects, including Kaito.
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