For the past week I’ve noticed a surge in tipping with warps… by seemingly new accounts that aren’t even following!

My hypothesis: bots that tip trending casts in hopes of being noticed and making a return via moxie, if even fishing for a like.

Anyone else experiencing this?

cc @horsefacts.eth and anyone who might be interested in doing some account forensics.

I wonder if theres a chain of invited account that generate warps for invitee and inviter, lowering operational costs

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Tipping warps is underrated

- Fixed price ($0.01) & self-determined "allowance"
- No cast action or reply needed
- Adds positive, public signal to other viewers of cast
- Distinct notification ("super like")

re: tipping as spammy

Most people "tip" with replies because
- it's not coming out of their pocket; it's from a (marketing) allocation for a token to gain attention
- use it or lose it mechanics that create urgency (and drive action)
- the price of the token is purely speculative

Tipping with Warps is the opposite of all of these and (imo) has the best UX bar none because when receiving it feels the most intentional and honest.

Getting tipped in 4-5 digit degen still feels good because it's perceivably "valuable" as long as the price of degen holds until claiming day.

Getting tipped in other tokens I don't follow feels like a cheap flyer being dropped on my cast that others may see. I don't even know how to claim these tips and I can't be bothered to check unless the price somehow skyrockets (it won't)

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Warp tipping maxis 🤝 

https://warpcast.com/sdv.eth/0x7787366d

Nah people are just catching on 😜

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I’m personally very pro warp tipping! I find it more meaningful than degen tipping since it comes from a real balance, even if it may financially not be worth as much.

Probably right about that. 

For my part, I’ve been tipping warps bc I missed the boat on degen staking & don’t have an allowance. Still want to reward stuff I want to see more of!

Are bots / spammers really buying warps and spending them?

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lol this just happened to one of my casts a few minutes ago 

wild what they’re doing for attention 😂

yepp https://warpcast.com/manan/0x27add735
https://warpcast.com/priyanka/0x36410e6c

same, also getting tipped wild & other random coins from these new/bot accounts

need warps, wish I’d seen this uptick in warp tips 😂

I haven't seen this but maybe that means I'm thinking too much before posting 🧐

Haven’t noticed though 

Any idea how frequent this has been happening though? 

Because I haven’t even experienced it first hand haha

I’m not a big account but still experience it once in a while
but are they really bot or people locked in spam?

It's also very easy to tip warps by mistake if you're clicking and scrolling on mobile.

I like warps, too bad they can't be sold though

Not me but I’m to small of a fish for them probably. I am however getting huge amounts of bots that only follow me and reply casts to me.

Seems like they are exploring different approaches now.

Yes, but. Warps cost money right? Why they do it just for reply

Also my cast  got raided by a ton of bots.

Is there a way to mass ban this??

I had the same experience.
They sent me fake tips using ham, degen, wild, and farther.
Luckily I realized the tip bots were fake.

I don't have the juice to experience this. But I've been seeing it. 
Even your cast has 30 wraps already 😭