Warpcast

Found a bug regarding follower counts: replies/follower is now dramatically different. Newer users actually get *better* engagement per follower than the old users - presumably the result of auto-follow diluting the value of each follower?

If you think these numbers seem way too high - you're not wrong. According to this, with my 20k followers I should get 160 replies on average to my cast, but I get maybe a 10th of that! My best guess is that this is because Warpcast hides a significant amount of replies to your casts (spam/low quality filtering) -- @pichi had documented this extensively. That or another bug in my analysis.

perhaps hiding likes, recasts (and arguably even many replies) should be rare?

let's think about this like a shopping mall - if you only allowed people to enter the mall if they proved they were going to buy something, malls would feel much more dead, leading to even fewer people interested in buying. merely having a lot of activity motivates consumption, even if most present aren't actually contributing.

non-contributive behavior is not necessarily bad

because knowing is finding the limits /outercorps

- encourages participation and potential future conversion