Varun Srinivasan
@v
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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rish
@rish
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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Vinay Débrou ⚙️
@vinaydebrou.eth
great point: i think mass-content leans to news/politics & horny/ thirst-traps. easy buckets of contents to fall into for a social media network trying to grow high engagement but also high regret rate (as in time wasted or attention stolen)
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