David Wedderman on Warpcast

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The problem with the Warpcast Power Badge is that many spammers have it. Here's a list of the top 100 casts with the most recasts in the last 24 hours, made by users with the Power Badge data.hubs.neynar.com/public/dashboards/b1FfpKPs0IPEVvsopekEgCrlJK7a8CqARAeMRSvC To create a clean list, I had to manually filter out 145 FIDs that are spamming but still have the Power Badge. You can find the list of these accounts here docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SMqs9VqucNo93k9doDJZMBtUwp4OjuzdwLjBo22MnNA If I can identify these accounts with a reasonable amount of effort, then so can the Warpcast team. As it stands, the Power Badge is not very useful. Don’t just take my word for it, analyze the data via @neynar

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This is fascinating. How exactly did you come to the conclusion that I'm a spammer? I only doing unique casts a few times a day on 2-3 channels. Most frequently in my own channel, which is also called /justbuild, the other is /powermonday which is designed to help people achieve a power badge through engagement. I spend the rest of my time on the platform replying to interesting casts I come across through the feeds I'm served through FC. I have never done a token giveaway and I do not engagement farm. So, I am wondering what exactly are you basing your criteria on.

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Teaching users how to achieve a power badge sounds a tad bit like teaching people how to spam... to a new user on this platform that is. Maybe you actually do have meaningful content that teaches people how to post things that will gain organic activity but the way it's sounds like I said is you teach people how to spam

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lol, so again. I have never engaged in spamming, in anyway shape or form. I prefer conversation and replies. 90% of my casts are text. I actually didn't even start tipping until about a month ago. Since then I actually find the activity fun, its like a gamified system of engagement. I achieved my badge by doing what you are doing. Starting a conversation with someone that has a badge. Once I found out that was actually how you earned a badge I started doing it regularly, then constantly, and then poof a badge. Through that process I met a group of PBs that invited me to the PM channel, where we make ourselves available to non badge holders (many who don't speak english as their first language) to engage with us. Some of it is silly, some of it is not. But policing what you consider valuable or meaningful, funny or useless is where this whole discussion is breaking down along the edges. I think it would have been much more constructive without the label since it was design to judge. But, that's just me.

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Like I said I'm a new user on here so I honestly have no idea what your content is like. I just felt your original defense didn't really do you a good defense if you know what I mean, but how you just explained it to me it feels and sounds now like you are doing nothing of wrong intent. Also not knowing how this platform works coming mainly from the old twitter days I always jump to bots and fake users and things of the such and how much that was taught... The theme of numbers over quality of numbers. So the thought of people teaching others how to get interactions makes me jump to that I'm my brain

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Yeah, its all good. I could tell by your response that you were missing some of the nuance around the topic. If you don't have some domain experience with these things it might sound off, ildi is one of the very first users, so he knows. But that also tells you why he likely has a very strong opinion on the state of the discourse on FC. Low FIDs vs newer accounts drawn by incentivized engagement often butt heads. Its a cultural clash. PBs are a very new patch that is being used to try to identify "quality" casters that are actively engaged with the platform and its the debate over what defines quality that brings us here. If you want deep dive conversations about data to be the norm, then you probably consider the prevalence of Pepe GM casts, designed to generate engagement and with it incentives, an affront to that vision. The Pepe GM casters would beg to differ. I'm in the camp where I think its all relevant and to cast a wide enough net to grow you need to cater to both sides of that coin. ✌️ 😁

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So it's a case of OG's not caring for new cats?

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You know man, I'm oversimplifying this like CRAZY for the sake of discussion, but there is definitely a lot of that in the mix. At the end of the day like most thigns everyone is kinda right, and kinda wrong. Just depends on how you want to draw a conclusion or extract an answer. Its complicated, every social tech is since there is no clear yes/no lever to pull. Personally I think its a pretty good system that needs to be tweaked a lot and that's what's happening, in real time, as we all use it, which is why these kinds of discussions go off the rails like this. When you judge a cast you are judging the output of a person, so its easy to understand why people take it personally. But, just so you understand how this works, because I have a PB and have engaged with you and followed you, you are now more likely to get one eventually. Keep going ser. 👊 😁

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And I only even stumbled upon all that cause I've learned to mint random things and engage with things I don't quite understand because if it's on coin base wallet messing with it might earn me an airdrop of some sorts down the line, so I got here basically for all the wrong reasons

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Not really. There are no wrong reasons to be here, so long as you aren't trying to scam or hurt someone. I have mad respect for the early FIDs and their vision, but the reality is that social tech is going to go through lots of iterations where new use cases and apps are going to come and go, rise and fall. Getting to worked about token this or nft that, kinda misses the plot, which is that we are still in a state of discovery and trying to find the killer app(s) that allows this all to scale. You finding it the way that you did is perfect and what is going to happen more and more and more. So, why not have as much diversity in communities and content to make it welcoming for you and anyone like you or also for early FIDs as well. Why does the existence or prevalence of one group diminish the other if they are all getting what they want?

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Not all new users are going to be like me. It just so happens I was so tired of X 😞 it was broken way before musk, its honestly failed I feel, but is just too big to die... So when I stumbled here and could quickly see it's different I wanted to engage. But people coming here just trying to earn so chunk of a prize when they don't get the results they wished interest is lost and they exit for the next cash grab. Then you have users who see that and never gain interest because they start seeing red flags.

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Nah, I think you're missing the point by making this about about this one topic. This community is super diverse. You don't have to engage in that process if you don't want to. I would spend a little time joining communities/channels you are interested. Just starting talking to people. Its the best thing you could do. Especially if you are coming from twitter which is a cesspool in comparison. You'll like it. Promise.

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