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Varun Srinivasan
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The active badge is going away. Spammy accounts are aggressively gaming the system to get the badge. Making the rules stricter just makes it harder for legitimate users. We’re past the point where a simple rule based system will work. We need something better.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Introducing the Power Badge, a new ranking system from Warpcast. It uses a PageRank-like approach to recursively find power users who are active and post content that the rest of the network finds interesting. Unlike the active badge, it does not have a set of rules that you can follow to earn the badge.
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Varun Srinivasan
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Power badges show up on user profile, just like the old active badges. They're intended to be a signal of quality to users browsing Warpcast, and to frame developers and other devs building in the ecosystem. Warpcast will make power badges available over an API.
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At launch, the power badge will have many fewer false positives (spammy users with the badge) and a few more false negatives (good users without the badge). It’s at a point where its already better than active badge for most purposes, and we will continue iterating and improving it every week.
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How do I get the power badge? Since it is network-based, there isn’t a guaranteed way to get it. The best approach is to: 1. Use the app weekly. 2. Cast things that other power users like, reply to or recast. 3. Avoid casting things that power users find spammy.
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Will the algorithm be made public? No, for two reasons: 1. It becomes easier to game, as we’ve seen with the active badge. 2. It is going to change often as we dial in the parameters. We expect this first version to be directionally right but not perfect. It will take many iterations before we get this right.
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I flagged this cast accidentally 🤣(I thought that when clicking "report cast" a menu would pop up with a reason choice or something). So, I like the idea of using power users as a way of giving or taking away "weight" from other users. Probably you used some of the top casters as a "seed" and from there it builds up
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@wayseeker
How did #3 came to be? What you think is spammy might be different from what I think it’s spammy. Another framing for this could be related to context and the ability to understand context in order to post. Almost like a “read the room”
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How do you determine 3?
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Just assuming that none of power users are follow the account. Does that mean that most of the followers won't see the post of a person? Because they will see the power users post?
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2. Cast things that other power users like, reply to or recast. This just screams farming though, no? Rewarding those who spam "Like repost this cast"
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@brahtoshi.eth
or be an inactive big CT name?
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@mandolinaes
If that’s true, where is mine? I have worked so hard to get my 400 followers to realize that I can’t get my badge today. Following that rules we are giving all the power to power people in the app. So it looks like X, where only the powerful and famous ones get all the recognition.
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Thank you for the 411! I'm going to work towards a power badge by casting more quality content 💪
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@sonso
Hmm. This seems to reward a specific type of user and not things that are a bit more esoteric. For example I generally find myself in generative art and other similar channels, including my own channel on bookends (the first and last generative mint in collections) farcaster user stats has me listed as low reputation.
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I may be mistaken but wouldn't this mean the first few who are lucky enough to be choosen get to decide the direction of discourse because even if u are an active poster of thoughtful content, but the current PUs dont like your opinions, they wont like/recast you, dissent gets punished, sameness rewarded: echo chamber?
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That doesn’t address the core problem of the motivation of users, it’s not actually interesting to engage, we’re all still attempting to cast to find the algorithm to get active. But sure, like and recast for more!
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