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.

Update: experiment was a success, power badge is no more in Warpcast!

Active users saw no impact and new users benefitted from this change. Warpcast will remove power badges from the UI permanently. 

If you are a developer who uses Power Badge, @neynar will continue supporting the Power Badge API for you.

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What will happen with channel moderation tools that require badges for your post to be on the main page?  Also posting videos and minimized frames?  Ideally not having a badge won’t hinder you at all and these are still major.

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Oooh that's a good one. There needs to be better options since there are so many spammers.