fc-updates

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

would be helpful to have some kind of "distance on social graph" badge if power badge does go away.

Agree a hard coded list is hard to scale / get new users on. But no visual cue is also annoying, esp when I've noticed increasing # of spammy users in priority mentions lately.

founder of eventcaster (@event / events.xyz), hosting /latenightcrew, member of 🍊 dao

Yeah I get that it has issues but I’m finding the change a bit bleh so far. 
Might get better after a day or two but right now it feels like I’m wading through mud. 

Having no badges might also make impersonation a lot easier 😅

agree. I don't like it. Needs something better to replace it or else don't remove IMO. But it could be bait to get the complainers to realize lol