I am pausing my activity on Warpcast for the foreseeable future due to the current issue with large number of bots.

Recent posts over the past few months have received hundreds of likes and recasts coming mostly from bots.

We did a deep dive into this today. Main takeaways:

1. The "bots" are humans and we catch a lot of them. 

2. They target famous accounts like @zachxbt a lot more often. 

3. They're evolving to only like/recast spamming

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

How does like/recasting benefit these spammers? What are they hoping to achieve? I can’t understand the incentive.

Founder of /success & /insider-trading. Search Marketing Director at Kraken Kratom.

I’m not sure that hiding more engagement stats for suspected spammy accounts just because 1 person finds it annoying is the right move. 

It seems like such a weird thing to focus on  as the systems here already do a fine enough job of hiding it. Guess I dont understand why he cares so much. 

Hiding obvious spam/pointless comments seems way more important to me.

details here: https://warpcast.notion.site/ZachXBT-Spam-Analysis-Public-1a06a6c0c101803486efd11076c9c481