Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The spam filtering dilemma Sharing how we think about it so people can better understand: 1. Most people will only use social networks if they are fun 2. Casting something and getting dozens of spammy replies is not fun 3. If you get enough spammy replies, you'll just stop using the app 4. So, aggressively filtering for spam is necessary to keep your existing users happy 5. However, this means some good new users will hit spam filters. Understatement: this is a bad user experience for those people. It would be great to not have this happen. 6. But given the choice of who to make unhappy — an existing user who has invested a ton of time and energy into the network or a new user that is most likely to churn (top tier social networks lose 50% of users!), then you have to optimize for your existing users. 7. So does that mean you don’t care about new users? No! It’s existential to have new users be able to join Farcaster and find people to connect with — without being labeled as spam. 1/2
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Sophia Indrajaal
@sophia-indrajaal
With the Vietnamese Mask Afficionado Bot Society, I think it is meant to game the system. They all reply to each other, which with my limited understanding seems to imply there is enough Moxie or whatnot generated to pay for new accounts. The goal is spammy replies in that case, which kind of creates a looped subsection of Farcaster that isn't even meant for much interaction with other accounts except maybe on occasion to build up their stats. Not sure if this adds much to the conversation, but leaving it here just in case
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Warpcast doesn't care about users that engage with each other. It's spammy users engaging with people who don't engage with them back.
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