fc-updates

Experiment: Hiding power badges

Power badges will be hidden on Warpcast for a week. We’re running this experiment because:

1. New user find it hard to get follows due to “power badge bias”
2. Power badge isn’t being used much in Warpcast anymore.

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If users are happy with the outcome, power badge might: 

1. become a developer-only thing 
2. be removed entirely 

we'll discuss this after the week is over. the change should be rolling out today.

It doesn't make sense to keep showing the power badge if its not being used by Warpcast, which is why we want to test this change. 

Power badge data will still be available to Dune, Neynar etc while the experiment is running.

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you created, you de-created, all fine, the relevant is good content and visibility for users if content is ok, will be more difficult for the art community as machine learning needs to know that a photography, an image (png, jpepg, video, gid) are quality good  content too with a basic text like my great creation: (image file)....this is the point for artists...

Once upon a time, a power badge was needed to show up in conversations.

That's no longer the case - Warpcast uses machine learning to find low quality content and move it into "Show more" 

It's good for users because the machine learning models a lot more accurate than the power badge was.

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there were a bunch on my LNC cast from last night... but I guess if you can hide them in the more replies section then who cares if they have storage or not

https://warpcast.com/matthew/0xaf71c35d

can you send me a few examples if you come across more spam?

would be helpful to have some kind of "distance on social graph" badge if power badge does go away.

Agree a hard coded list is hard to scale / get new users on. But no visual cue is also annoying, esp when I've noticed increasing # of spammy users in priority mentions lately.

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I don’t know what a power badge is and at this point I’m afraid to ask

Man I thought I lost my badge and panicked 😂

Nouns

Instead of a power badge can we show a badge for streaks + quality on the channel posts. Basically like a high quality poster for specific channels only. So if someone posts to /nouns consistently and with quality it's marked as such? So no longer profile specific.

looking forward to seeing how this next week goes

pls share with us the finding afterwards! would be interesting to see how that affects engagement

I always thought it was odd that everyone pays the same amount for an account yet without the power badge you were essentially shadow banned

Farcaster Devs

If you're a developer that uses the Power Badge, please reply here with a link to your app if possible.

Looking for feedback, so would be good to know who is using it in their app.

Re: Power badge isn’t being used much in Warpcast anymore.

The Power badge, as a social reputation layer, is actually widely used in the Farcaster ecosystem.

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If developers want to maintain the PB, at least in the backend, they should advocate for that. 

Currently, many people are advocating that PBs go away. And maybe with machine learning and other scores, the PB isn't as usual to the social aspect of the platform as it once was.

I also don't understand this statement. Apps like @buoy and @recaster-fc heavily rely on the power badge. What’s the point of having a decentralized protocol if every app in the ecosystem depends on a single client that dominates the protocol by implementing centralized features and can decide to shut them down whenever they want?

Re: Power badge isn’t being used much in Warpcast anymore.

The Power badge, as a social reputation layer, is actually widely used in the Farcaster ecosystem.

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x517da764

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But now, how can we /easily/ differentiate real users from fakes without checking the badge?

thinking about that too, but in the end what I'd prefer is to have quality users showing on my feed and replies without the need for a badge. 

hoping we're going that way..

I still like power badges because they help me identify if I'm dealing with a legitimate account or a scammer trying to impersonate a project or user.