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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Why don't you clean up "the bots"? Useful to be precise here: "bots" is a catch all term that people use to describe low effort, uninteresting or otherwise off-topic content. However, a "bot" is traditionally thought of as a programmatic account, i.e. controlled by a script or software. e.g. bot net When people on Farcaster refer to "bots" they are more often referring to actual people using a mobile device (with the aid of translation tools and ChatGPT) who post uninteresting content (from their pov). They are casting and replying in hopes of appearing to be a "real account" because they have learned that turns into a future economic reward in crypto. Recent tipping meta has increased the expected value of these accounts. It's possible to algorithmically label these accounts, but then you create a "shadowban" meta. So you massively increase the number of support messages and complaints. This was the state of the world before priority mode.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
We're going to keep iterating here, but our pov is: 1. Priority mode works pretty well out of the box 2. We need to offer ways for actual interesting accounts to break through 3. We'll likely bring back some version of spam labeling since priority mode has created it's own set of customer support complaints. "Why don't you just use onchain signals?" a. Based on our waitlist last year of 300K sign ups, "bots" have plenty of Ethereum addresses with assets. b. Most new users don't want to connect an address during sign up (friction, doesn't work well on mobile). So you'll miss out of on good accounts. c. Active onchain presence != you regularly post interesting content. There are some people of course, but plenty of examples otherwise.
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Jacob
@jrf
hey @dwr.eth i had an idea yesterday that you might find useful the current options are basically two-fold priority mode on, only follows and power badges trigger notifications priority mode off, everything triggers notifications what if there were a third option, like a medium priority mode? don't notify me of all replies, just notify me of a reply if the account is followed by at least one person that i follow this way you leverage the farcaster social graph to boost accounts that are in your indirect network thoughts?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
We may add that, but doesn't solve for the new account problem. Also gets computationally expensive.
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Jacob
@jrf
i hear you, it seemed logical, so it makes sense that it's on the radar perhaps a farcaster client focused on boosting new accounts is a good client opportunity ?8^)
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
wouldn't get enough users
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