These are the vibes we should avoid imo

Status games are a slippery slope and there are already a bunch of “social” apps available if people want to play them

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feels more like it's a temporary band aid solution to a larger problem with surfacing new users in the feed

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i agree. curious to hear what your ideas are for better solutions

automating the process of identifying new accounts that produce good content seems like a hard problem

Yeah I think so too but I think there are also better solutions here (and I’m sure the Merkle team and others will continue to experiment)

in hindsight power badge also was a band aid to combat bots at the time until the model caught up