Mike | Abundance 🌟
@abundance
Not enough focus on incentivizing quality. When there are so many projects, tokens, systems and mechanisms that incentivize engagement - and only a few small projects that try to promote quality content - it's not surprising that we get so much engagement farming. You can't solve this with LLMs alone bc you're filtering too many user accounts that mostly use the platform normally but may also want to profit from the incentives (or maybe they're just caught in the LLM filter regardless). But if that's the approach there needs to be greater bottom-up user feedback on spammers. If the incentives were stronger to create quality content you'd have "quality content farming" - by both users and bots. No one would be complaining about either.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Appreciate your thoughtful takes, Mike. Re: not enough focus on incentivizing quality, here's another view of the problem. I've been casting since Jan 2023. My essays get good feedback from readers. I've curated content others appreciate. I've started + modded 2 channels. I've been boosted by WC. I've received 5 USDC top caster reward several times. I love this place. I know we need more interesting content. Happy to contribute what I can. Yet like most writers, I still can't make ends meet sustainably through my creative writing. Nor through channel mod work. Tips + minting are supplemental revenue at best, and unreliable. Thus far I've been subsidizing the time I spend on FC through other means. That won't be possible for me much longer, so with no clear path to a sustainable livelihood there may soon be a big drop in the time I'm able to spend on FC (and thus, the content I contribute) since I'll need to turn my focus to paid work elsewhere. How could FC retain contributors in similar positions?
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Trigs
@trigs
I think they're just solving it algorithmically, which is also part of the core of your point: They aren't looking at the content, they're only looking at the engagement metrics (how many times they've posted and how much engagement that has generated from the OP). Not that llm's could actually assess quality content either, but they're not even going that far, just stopping right at engagement as the only qualitative factor.
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