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.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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I still like power badges because they help me identify if I'm dealing with a legitimate account or a scammer trying to impersonate a project or user.

IRL: Creative Director who makes movies and ads.

thinking about that too, but in the end what I'd prefer is to have quality users showing on my feed and replies without the need for a badge. 

hoping we're going that way..

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Florianópolis, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil

But now, how can we /easily/ differentiate real users from fakes without checking the badge?

I guess for fakes is a matter of checking if they have friends in common and what not? just like we used to do in twitter? I'm more concerned about unknown accounts and figuring if they're worth my time or are sybils/farmers common to farcaster with a bunch of fake content (which usually woudn't get the badge)

It’s not that it’s become impossible to identify fake accounts, but it’s definitely more difficult now. Before, it was a quick visual check, and now you have to dig into the user’s profile. To me, that’s a downgrade. Think about people who are familiar with navigating Web3 but still get scammed because they’re tired, drunk, or distracted. One small slip and you’re in trouble.

I understand your point but for me security is a priority, especially in web3 territory. Power badges being tailored and upgraded aligned with the better algorithms (a lot more users receiving them) are the best scenario in my mind. 
Or even the opposite, since we have way less projects (in numbers) than users, a new badge for projects could exist. (manually handled by requeriment). And only projects and no personal users would have them. Idk.

yeah I kinda agree. but I also care about discovering good non badge accounts so I might be willing to give this a go.