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. 

nf.td/varun

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..

contributor /openventures & /obscura.  Balancing spreadsheets and shutter speeds. products. photography. art. global south. https://gallery.so/gillotine

Florianópolis, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil

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)

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