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One of the positive aspects of Moxie is that it could discourage negative interactions and conflict (Who wants to interact with someone they dislike to give them Moxie?) while encouraging people to reward positive content by interacting with it and encouraging more to be created and ongoing relationships to be built. If done right this could create a virtuous cycle.

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Let me give you an example:

A communist sympathizer on Warpcast doesn’t like @dwr.eth for his support of the free market economy but comments positively under his posts, hoping to get a like or reply worth 4000 moxies. Meanwhile he continues to post his true opinions on Twitter.

Dan being aware of this tactic, becomes skeptical of all interactions from people he doesn’t know personally. As a result he might overlook a fellow entrepreneur who genuinely appreciates his work and is trying to build a relationship, interpreting that as moxie-farming.

This scenario could apply to any big account on Farcaster like @betashop.eth, @cameron or @macedo. *Tagging in case they’re interested in this discussion.

It's also likely that people engage with someone they don’t like just because that person is a "moxie god" who might like their comments and give them moxies. This makes it difficult to distinguish genuine fans and leaves you skeptical of all engagements.

Hm but rage baiting also does seem to work. Either way I think it promotes a race to the extreme, since engagement is typically driven via emotion

Wouldn’t this create more echo chambers etc?

Eugene Wei's research shows this usually happens late in a social platform's life, discouraging new users from creating content and ultimately leaving. But in crypto networks, it's appearing early. I see this as an unavoidable SocialFi trade-off and doubt it can be fully solved.

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if done right is the issue 

ie content of mine that is very close in numbers to Linda’s gets 60 moxie vs hers getting almost 10k

almost no incentive for me to put content here vs elsewhere, I’ve brought up this disparity and just been told to buy other ppls tokens instead

This is a great point. It does have the potential to discourage toxic arguments. 337 $degen

or it can take away the companionship that used to be before.
It's good to reward, but many people have developed a sense of their own greatness and don't want to communicate with each other because of bad airstack rank or farscore)