powermonday

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.

Looks like this might be the end of badges. Good riddance! Badges might've been useful at one point, but the badge bias is real and hurts a lot of good accounts (while also helping to amplify bad ones). Badges also caused a lot of resentment, so I think this will be a welcomed change by most. I've noticed a significant improvement in the filtering/show more section over the last few weeks., so hopefully the new algos continue to do a good job of filtering out spam.

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In the past few weeks, my replies are being seen more and more. I think before "show more" , replies were buried under all the bot replies unless you had a badge. FC is much better now.

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i'm sure there are still some good people being buried, but with the bots and this volume its impossible to not have em. hopefully they introduce a better process to get out though.