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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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Marcela
@laursa.eth
Ok, so if we can’t control them can we at least a) allow channel bans again? not only for casting but for replying. Then they could do whatever they wanted in their own feeds but not in ours.. I don’t feel like the main feed is a solution at all. b) come up with some mute that goes the other way around? I don’t want them to see my posts. They copying our pfps, bios, posts, and even making creepy comments. c) Do as the friend above said and maybe create new categories instead of follow + power badge? Maybe running hot (most engaged users in the last week) or new account, or mutual, for when over 50 of your followers follow this person? I am not aware of the costs but the experience is getting unpleasant and I have been muting lots and lots of accounts, have seen many complain about this. I have more ideas if needed, maybe one of them is cheap and viable? If you read this, thank you.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
1. Channel bans don't scale 2. It's a public decentralized protocol 3. Any new categories will just have "bots" adjust to appear like good accounts there
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Arti Villa
@artivilla.eth
just a suggestion; why not add more active real accounts as mods and use @automod to raise the posts in the main feed. it is more work but I don't see many ppl asking for channel mod help. I'd love to mod /frontend or /dev or something I use frequently.
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