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Spam filtering is coming to Warpcast. 

Over the last 3 months, we've labelled thousands of spammy accounts by hand and @akshaan has carefully trained an ML model to do this automatically. 

We're rolling out this model starting today, and it will significantly improve the user experience.

Spam is posting irrelevant content in public spaces to farm reactions and follows. 

Some examples: 
- Posting irrelevant replies to someone's cast 
- Posting irrelevant content in a channel
- Mentioning or recasting users unnecessarily

Here's a one from a few minutes ago:

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Our spam model is going to start labelling new accounts today, and over time will roll out to 100% of accounts. 

The labels aren’t visible at this time, though we plan to make them publicly available to other applications just like the power badge.

I promise I will never do that again cause I love this platform. After starting using it I forgot my Twitter. If there is a way, I will appreciate you if you accept my appology.

Tnx for this modern mechanism to make this platform a noble one
But I have a problem Sir. Some followed me,one night I tried to follow them back for respect. I was unaware of the rule you mentioned and I think I was labelled.caz my casts aren't shown in public space.plz forgive me for this single and ignorance 🙏🏻

Warpcast won't show casts from spammers in public spaces. 

They won't show up in the channels, replies and notifications of people who don't follow them. 

Warpcast does promise that content will always be visible to followers (sufficient decentralization), even if a user is labelled spammy.

sorry mom | cc0 | shown in the rad cities

https://linktr.ee/scizors.eth

a one-off irrelevant comment in a public space won't get you labelled as spam. 

but if most of your posts in public spaces are irrelevant messages that no one else wants to read, then well... isn't that spam?

wait, you're gonna label someone's entire account as spam for saying hi to you (???)🤦🏻

i hope y'all's ML algo is better than the one that took away a bunch of people's degen airdrops for having an inoptimal follower to following ratio

y'all should be careful how you move forward with these types of things pls

Learning and contributing. Optimist  ✨🔴_🔴✨

How would you differentiate btw a normal recast (to echo the content ) and an unnecessary cast ?

Economics

The beatings will continue until morale improves. 🥵

will it recognize images? because this could be seen as spammy

will it recognize images? because this could be seen as spammy

https://warpcast.com/king/0x698e05bd

Does this mean replying with “Based.” will flag me as spam?

celebrating nfts, art, artists and collectors. one at a time.

Unlearning. Full time product manager. Part time builder/tinkerer on farcaster. Bots: @nftsoffc.

It is not posting in channels so users already don’t see it if they don’t follow.

“Mentioning users unnecessarily”

Per this: would @nftsoffc be considered spam, you think? It is an account which posts certain collection NFTs and tags collectors.

/monad ecosystem (consumer & gaming) | ex telco.in & everwave.xyz founder | /music moderator | writing on web3 & culture https://paragraph.xyz/@alixkun.eth

Anything that your overlords doesn't like ..

"Recasting users unnecessarily" sounds like a very hard rule to maintain. What is an example of a clearly unnecessary recast? 🤔

paperboy

[inaudible laughter] • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

Would this affect actions that we use like /paperboy by @jtgi ? I've been using it to tip 1% and it sure looks spammy when doing it, but is handy!

Michelada connoisseur. Chief Onchain Officer at /area51 since 2022 AD. Focused on digital art & crypto

How would that event be written in code? Is it based on volume/amount? The easy ones are saying words that aren’t aligned with channel. But how do we differentiate between regular & spam. As an example, I tagged 3 ppl here, is that too much? Where is the line 

https://warpcast.com/0xgramajo/0xd6cdeb5b

Why would that happen?

He said unnecessary tags (spammy tags)

Are content creators who tag builders about to get hammered? 👀

What did I do wrong when I just said hi?  I'm not good at English so sorry ok bro?

What about people giving out degen tips?

This could be seen as spam by algo, because it's basically just a bunch of replies with a number and $degen ticker.

Will that be excluded from the spam filter?

Otherwise it will disincentivise people from tipping.

Cc @wake - would love to hear your thoughts on this too 🙂

Fantastic news! The less spam the better and the more chances thoughtfulness rises to the top of peoples Farcaster feeds. Thank you

This is an important step, good luck 🤘

"recasting users unnecessarily" if i recast a lot of art what i love so i will be marked as spammer? how many artist i can support during the day?

Ok so just more than one word and we gucci?

I got my first spam DC the other day - growing pains 🥰