Curating /outcasters has become more challenging due to the increase in spam on Farcaster. So I have decided to run a new experiment:

Step 1: download list of all Power Badge users
Step 2: use list to filter top 1000 casts in last 7 days
Step 3: remove spammy users from list
Step 4: go back to step 1 and repeat weekly

I've just looked at the top 1000 casts based on most likes recieved since Sunday, April 21, and it turns out that @imthedude has casted 175 of them. That's 17.5% of the top-performing casts in the last three days. If this isn't spam, I don't know what is! But somehow, this person still has the power badge.

i’m the dude. i make art. i make memes. but, i don't make money. /actions /dude /designershumor /dankmemes /forecast /graphicdesign /getmotivated /newideasdaily

I thought your plan might have flaws. The power badge isn’t the best gauge of quality. Having said that, I have one so hopefully I don’t count in that statement 😁😁

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That’s so much work. You deserve some kind of secondary power badge for this 😁

I started with the power badge list which included 4407 users in total as of yesterday. Then I look at the top 1000 casts made by those users and filter out the spammy ones. Then download the power badge list again each week (to make sure new power badge users are included) and run the same process again.

I love that. I wish I was here just a little earlier to feel what is was like. I got a hint of it when I came in but then it changed pretty quickly.

The goal is to get back to having a clean feed to curate from when I pull up the top 1000 casts each week. It was such a pleasure to explore in the past. Now you will lose brain cells going through it. 

Subreddits show you a clean feed if you look at the top posts in last week, so why can't Farcaster?