How about Power Users get to nominate 1 other power user? 

Once a week
If they aren;t active, they lose the badge

Kind of an open curation and expands the number of quality power users

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Yes, but I’m ok with an uninteresting but active human than 1) bots 2) people giving up on fc because they aren’t seeing 

It also brings back the invite vibes from early on

Something we're considering! Challenge is when uninteresting / spammy users end up with the power badge, further increases number of uninteresting / spammy users

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Yes but you can lose the power badge if you engage in inactivity or spammy casts + user muting/reports

I am pretty sure this is a version of the principal agent problem.

Any of the self serving reputation mechanisms break down with the infiltration of a single malicious actor.

You are effectively saying that there is a condition for a disease to spread within the system.

We rather need credible neutrality instead.

A better version of this already exists currently, just interact and follow your non power badge friends as you would normally :)

Would 100% support this as it's a great way of getting non PB profiles seen by others. As a non PB holder you start to feel invisible despite people recommending you. Community voices matter a lot in these kinds of trust building metrics.