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This is problematic - a Power Badge'd account that purports to "automatically summarize and cast about the best posts on Paragraph" is casting out literally NOTHING - which wastes the time of everyone who engages and lowers confidence in future casts from @paragraph 

This is classic spam / bot behavior, @colin - can or will anything be done about it? Or do purple badges get a pass on these types of casts?

p.s. I was very much looking forward to reading a "thoughtful exploration of sustainable living practices," so if anyone is actually writing about that subject, feel free to @ me!

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We automatically summarize and cast about the best posts on Paragraph.

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Of course - happy to help.

As a relatively new user of Paragraph, I appreciate the potential exposure of such casts - but their value is diminished if people begin to distrust the message - or the messenger.

Philosophically, there is the problem of Power Badge accounts casting low-quality content which would earn "lesser" accounts an algorithmic shadowban.

Thanks for pointing this out!

Hopefully we can create some filters to limit this to only higher-quality posts... but it might be a game of whac-a-mole. 

Thanks again!

Yes, and the "creator" appears to be a bot, or certainly an account whose content is questionable - but that is the problem when content is "curated" by algorithms and not humans.

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Thank you for supporting "investigative journalism" here on WC!

Investigating the interplay between "good" bots and "bad" bots, the humans  caught in between, and the evolving power dynamics between the "haves" and "have-nots" on this platform was not something that I set out to do, but it is something that more and more of my regular interactions have driven me to do..

Some may read my analysis as negative - but my goal is not only to highlight problems, but to suggest and advocate for solutions. Many of the issues that I've discovered are, I believe, unintended consequences of attempts to "do something good" - and one of the great things about this platform is its potential to iterate in real-time - to "fail fast, fail often, and fail forward" - if a problem IS identified, it's still very possible to tweak a given process (be it $DEGEN allowances, Power Badges, automated casting, bot-identification algorithms, etc) to move the ecosystem toward a more perfect "future state."

I'm here for it - let's build!

i briefly followed the paragraph account before unfollowing it because lots of the posts seemed low quality

finding out they just had a bot cast out every single paragraph article that's posted explains things

I'm not opposed to a branded account like this using automatic post mechanisms, but it would make sense to filter it on at least some popularity metrics and basic checks (e.g. that the article exists)

not sure what the actual policy is on PB and bots, but posting quality articles feels like it would pass the bar for spam if better curated 

thanks for highlighting this! 

1000 $degen for investigative journalism?