powermonday

fc-updates

Experiment: Hiding power badges

Power badges will be hidden on Warpcast for a week. We’re running this experiment because:

1. New user find it hard to get follows due to “power badge bias”
2. Power badge isn’t being used much in Warpcast anymore.

Looks like this might be the end of badges. Good riddance! Badges might've been useful at one point, but the badge bias is real and hurts a lot of good accounts (while also helping to amplify bad ones). Badges also caused a lot of resentment, so I think this will be a welcomed change by most. I've noticed a significant improvement in the filtering/show more section over the last few weeks., so hopefully the new algos continue to do a good job of filtering out spam.

I think it'll become more common for people to check airstack rank or openrank or whatever. And instead of auto approval of casts from badges , itll convert to auto approval of casts of people with social score below XnnI agree i used it as a crutch too. For better or worse ppl will need to put more effort into scouting an account.