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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There's also decay on leaderboard points, so you see a higher score and then suddenly a lower one. It's a bucket with holes in the bottom

Theory is it’s people getting marked as spam.

I’m not participating in the leaderboard; I was just curious about the mechanisms involved and analyzing for fun.

So the cast cap prevents backlog drag, but within the window, score drops unless new engagement outpaces decay?

I assume the 51st top-level cast (oldest one) drops from scoring, and any remaining value it had is lost?

Your Top 50 casts are scored. So you don’t lose points this way.

Without time-decay, early posts would stay on top indefinitely.

Multiplier steadily erodes each like, so you must keep earning fresh engagement to remain visible.

This also discourages one-off like buying or trading because burst spikes fade quickly. 

Spam flags further reduce scores. 

Scores still fall if the decay on older likes outweighs the value of new ones