farcasterunion

Gm everyone,

Today I see that Warpcast decided to label the tool /impact is building to improve the ecosystem as spam. There was no warning.

This is a tool designed specifically to help discover (and financially reward) builders & creators based on their impact to Farcaster, and not just based on what the engagement algos favor.

As I already said, Warpcast needs to fundamentally rethink its spam policy.

There should be more categories than just regular user vs spammer.

Tips are not spam. Bots that support the network are not spam. These should all be in separate categories, and users should have the ability to decide if they want to see them or not. Not just put everything under the fold.

As I also said before, I'm a Farcaster permabull, so I'll keep developing tools to empower users & communities on FC.

Today I'm also very bearish on WC - far too many people already left the network bc of algos that suppress artists' frames, aggressively label users as spammers, and generally make newcomers unwelcome

Discussed with Mike, the problem is some spammy users triggering the bot to mention other users. 

I like mike's suggestions of letting bots opt in to a tag, we'll do that soon. But in the mean time: 

1. If your bot is replying to the person that invoked it, that's fine. 

2. If your bot is replying to or mentioning people that did not invoke it, that's less fine. Especially if a user can trigger your bot to mention another user

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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do ppl actually relaly care this much about a little superflous tagging and or “unwanted” replies etc…. where is the data on this? why is it such a big deal? is that actually representative of most users? or is it just catering to a small subset of users that are apparently super high maintenance and cant handle posting into a PUBLIC FORUM and getting interactions that they dont “like”? like is that really what all of this is all about?  do most actual ppl using this app alot even really care much at all? esp. when they have block and muting abilities? what gives?

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ya its bizarre, and we have like no transparency what this is actually based on except like dan claiming that it is a problem for users allegedly with little to no support to support that (even of that was sufficient justification for the intensity of the preoccupation with it in the first place)

It's got to be either a very low spam report tolerance threshold, or a boost for reports from certain users.

Can't imagine most people would report a bot as *spam* just because they don't want to participate when the mute/block options are right next to report.

Doesn't Twitter have a multistep report flow to try dissuade unnecessary spam reports by directing people to mute/block?

They asked for it programming their frames to push out hihi “@ name tags” and then getting mad when real questions need to be answered.

Warpcast

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they are still in la la land trying to preserve the pre-permissionless sign up vibes…impossible 

instead they’re just making the experience bad for almost all new users (and more, frankly)

i just want them to give the users (and devs) more autonomy instead of the bullshit spoonfeeding. we are pretty much all power users; we don’t need much handholding 

despite this, i love the community and will keep on building.

i cannot wait until there is a viable alternative to warpcast, though

my take https://warpcast.com/downshift.eth/0x3ea5bb9f

This has been my question too. I mean, why is so much time being spent on this? Is this really affecting the *average* user experience?

Food

this friction between the "OG's" and regular people use to X has to play a major role in lackluster DAU/growth. There's plenty of interesting content on here but the team has a preference to promote photos of /food

Maybe ask @dappykit I am pretty sure they know all about it