Varun Srinivasan on Farcaster

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Varun Srinivasan

Weekly rewards are meant to support creators who spend their time and energy creating engaging content on Farcaster. We've seen some accounts try to trick the algo by coordinating engagement, and redirect rewards towards low effort or uninteresting content. We're making changes to fix this. 1. The algo will reward diverse weekly engagement. If you get two likes from different people, they'll give you more points than two likes from the same person. 2. The algo may reduce or eliminate points from some accounts based on heuristics (engaging with spammy accounts, only with a particular account, in time patterns that suggest coordination etc) These changes will roll out on Tuesday. For more details on how rewards work, see the page below. https://farcasterhq.notion.site/Farcaster-Creator-Rewards-1f56a6c0c101808f9225c5705ae88fcc

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you might not want to be honest with yourself and agree with the contents of this image but we all know it’s the truth

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@thosmur they’re onto us

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reasoning for change makes sense. one thing to note is if the incentive is to create content that elicits reaction from a broader circle of people instead of writing bangers for the same target audience, it incentivizes sensationalism i.e. things that will go viral and reach a mass audience because majority of people will find a connection to it and engage with it. this is why there was a time where fb newsfeed was just breaking news stories. y'all might already be anticipating it, just throwing out there

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excited to see this happening !!! sock puppets and voting rings were a huge issue when stack overflow scaled too

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WhatsApp chat from another country in shambles calling us racists today

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@baseddesigner.eth

Interesting change, so our biggest fans and friends out here won’t give us much points anymore 🤔 And the only way to reach new people is to get into trending algo?

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Fun! Reminds me of quadratic funding

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Hey @v there's a guy stealing my content and trying to take my rewards, can you look into it, I think he's trying to trick the algo: His post where he took my remix (from 22hr before) and got 20x the engagement https://farcaster.xyz/barmstrong/0x835db84e My post: https://farcaster.xyz/qt/0x643d10c7 Appreciate you looking into this 👑

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how would you feel if the top accounts on FC are all just thirst trap farmers?

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How do you decide these? I barley interact with accounts I don’t know or I follow but their messages don’t resonate therefore all of my likes are for the same people (mostly). Here’s my unsolicited advice: create cateogries of users. Examples can be 1)basic users (me), 2) original farcaster specific content creators, 3) coss-posters content creators. Make people self identify and have thede categories get a different % of rewards. The farcaster specif content creators get the highest %.

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Love to hear it!

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Why, why do you not want me to make my $3 😭

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@div @geoffgolberg sound familiar?

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Thanks for trying🌻 But for those of us with low engagement bc of the people gaming the system a lot of us only have an regularly engaging audience of like 15-20 people so might not help us at all unless this update disincentivizes gaming the system, which won’t bc there are bigger incentive systems like noice and tipn keeping that sorta action goin…

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If I see that an account is considered spam, but I can also see that it's just an algorithm problem and not the user - are there consequences for me from communicating with him/her? It's not a question about rewards it's more about support. I don't care about my place on the leaderboard but I want to help them.

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@josephineoriaku

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So it’s not bad to engage accounts labeled as spam ? Isn’t the support or engagement supposed to help them leave spam ?

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