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this is a new user deterrent; i’ve talked about this before too would be good to wipe the bots from follower counts what would you think if you were new here & saw an outsized number of accounts with 50,000+ followers getting 1-5 likes per post? you’d think this place is a ghost town

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@baseddesigner.eth

no point in those numbers agree I'd even consider disabling and hiding all accounts inactive after a period of time like 10 months

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But wiping bot accounts would be a bit difficult as I’ve seen some real account behave and cast like bots 🤦‍♂️

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would you consider accounts that were active at some point and later moved from fc to ct as bots? it’s tricky because not all inactive accounts are bots, but cleaning up the follower lists could definitely help showcase real engagement here

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i agree, but no matter what score, metric, or methodology Merkle uses to differentiate bots, someone will be pissed, right? i don’t see a great path forward…

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what if Farcaster had seasons like Diablo 4 and PoE, seasonal followers reset every X months

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wouldn’t be the first time my follower count purged

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I’d counter that with generally improving the feed. As a feed gets more algorithmic, it will tend less to show posts that won’t get engagement. If you’re using following tab and seeing posts from someone you don’t necessarily want to see, you can always prune that follow anyway

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what makes you think the bots aren't already wiped from the follower counts shown to users? compare any user's followers via WC or Supercast or Firefly or Recaster or Farquest or Neynar hub explorer or Vasco ... BTW, now that the "adjusted" number is being used for real money vis-a-vis weekly rewards, tuning the sensitivity of the follower count adjustment has a hyperbolic effect on the monetary distribution. *** I would like real clarity on future airdrop qualifications. Is it followers? cumulative rewards received? activity? friendly interactions with dwr v and horsefacts? Without this clear public thinking, the death spiral will accelerate as trust leaks

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Pls ser, I just crossed the 1k followers milestone

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Outside of the fact that we need more people on here I think another thing is the content, the people with high following actually don’t have more understandable contents For example, Wake has more engagement simply because he’s got casts that anyone could easily relate to There are many small accounts getting good engagement too, what could be the reason?

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I don’t think enough people remember how much FarScores changed when @betashop.eth changed their algo to only look at recently active accounts. It was insane.

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Locked In (On Fire)

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@chasesommer.eth

yeah it's a bit weird kinda like a gotcha

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I wonder at which points the bot invaded follower counts

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@atlas summarize

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its permissionless so you cant remove bots from the protocol, only from the warpcast frontend itself and hide their comments.

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Bots skewing follower counts. Misleading and off-putting to new users

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be so good they ignore this

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Yes i agree, iam got 1.2k followers but always 3 or 4 comment & like every cast

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