tipping accounts just for engaging with your cast, without them contributing anything beyond their participation in boosting your visibility and $degen allocation is gaming the system and defeating the point of decentralizating tips. 

These are falsely inflated tip allocations being self dealt and farmed with bots

Just because erc20 tipping is new to Farcaster doesn’t mean it’s net new. 

Study erc20 tokens on reddit.

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it did.

it wasn't all negative, it also allowed for a small community to grow around it who were genuinely interested in experimenting with community building through distributed curation, governance, moderation, etc. Hard to keep the focus there when faced with the financialization of community though.