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.

Update: experiment was a success, power badge is no more in Warpcast!

Active users saw no impact and new users benefitted from this change. Warpcast will remove power badges from the UI permanently. 

If you are a developer who uses Power Badge, @neynar will continue supporting the Power Badge API for you.

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Now that Power badge is ded, would you guys be interested in giving out some details on how it worked under the hood now?

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similar to what openrank also does 

Seed a set of users see who they interact with, include these users and see who they interact with … repeat and you get a cluster. Call that power badge

For details check last dev call recording

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yeah we've been very public about how it works. 

1. pick list of known good users 
2. see who they follow and interact with, add to list 
3. repeat step 2 until you exhaust supply of good users 

the details are in tweaking parameters around how to weight a follow vs a like vs a reply etc etc