We're making some tweaks to the Warpcast rewards algo based on your feedback. 

First a quick recap on how scoring worked last week: 

1. For each cast, get points for likes, recasts, follows 
2. Only count engagement from known good users
3. Divide by sqrt(active followers) where (active = last 7 days)

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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"Known good users" was chosen carefully to prevent spam and gaming.  It was a few thousand users that were classified as not spammy, had connected twitter accounts and a few other heuristics that were hard to game. 

"Normalize by active followers" was basically taking the number of followers in the set of known good users that followed you, taking the square root of that, and dividing your score by it. This was to give new users a leg up, so that it wasn't impossible for them to earn a reward.

We're making two changes this week: 

1. Known good users is being expanded from a few thousand users to all users who classified as unlikely to be spammy. (about 40,000 users) 

2. Normalize by active followers is going to use a higher root. This means there is much less of a penalty for having a large number of active followers. 

These changes should make more people eligible for rewards this week!

Curious why you decided to use the higher root? 

I prefer that newer users actually get rewarded more/more often than myself. I’d rather have growth at the bottom, then worry about my personal rewards. I’m sure many other large accounts would feel similar.

Loving this transparency, thank you for sharing, please keep it up! :)

Let's see how these changes will impact me.
Made my first $10 USD today. 

Will I disappear now?

Pi-chi.eth Artist /animeoutcasts
Hosting: /sakura /kyoto /anime-manga /farcasterunion

https://portrait.so/pichi

thank you @dwr.eth and everyone else who is building, sharing, supporting, and just hanging out here

as an artist, income streams can be iffy at times. as an artist with complex chronic illness, they can be even more challenging, so getting paid for just participating is a huge deal. on days i can’t get out of bed i can still post, and i enjoy the interactions greatly—i’d do it for free, but to feel appreciated for being here is something no social app has ever provided 

time to go send out some more invites 

♥️♥️♥️

they weren't limited to an exclusive group

e.g.

if only 2,000 users determined the scoring then it was (out of 40k non spammy users).  anilaferry parody account was gaming your scoring to prove interactions with the top 5 ppl in farcaster would get you points...it finished #2 I believe?  apparently the other top users were in on it to prove the scoring was fixed.

they weren't limited to an exclusive group

e.g. https://warpcast.com/marlo/0xdb146e40

The previous rewards were primarily limited to an exclusive group, focused on rewarding one another.

What is the intended purpose of offering this reward to users?  You have legitimate people who love farcaster using this app, grinding to provide what @dwr.eth is calling "quality content" trying to get on the scoreboard with absolutely no chance because they don't mingle in LA with the founders... 

cc @pichi

will this discourage interaction with new users / unknown users as it will not come with rewards?

Appreciate your updates V!
I find your ability to provide technical details in terms everyone can understand very admirable. As an engineer, I know that’s not always easy.
The FC/WC team is lucky to have you

Are repeated reactions being counted? The number of "unlikely to be spammy" users is quite large, and if they consistently react to each other's posts, wouldn't this lead to farming these rewards, which were originally meant for creators?

smart adjustments. balancing accessibility with anti-gaming measures is key to sustainable growth. incentive design shapes behavior