Why does Farcaster endorse the gaming of its algorithm?

Would it make more sense to ban these type of apps rather than to endorse them via app stores?

bad take tim! 

this is actually one of the best usecases of onchain social. 

what are you even talking about?

designer & maker (trust over attention) | creator of IRL walk & talk club | prev founding team rara.social | EV grantee @Mercatus, YakCollective, IIT Kanpur CS

I think the source of confusion is probably the name itself @frontend 

Reply (for a price) to many people means reply-farming (as in paid comments) 
NOT
responding to a private DM. 

this is a branding flaw

*you probably mean the broadcast marketing apps like Amps & Noice(somewhat recently).

Reply is a different usecase & good for the opengraph, in fact

on second thought, i think you must have misunderstood the usecase. The name is ambiguous.