"Merkle just helps its friends"

How many times do I have to repeat that most users and developers on Farcaster did not know Varun or myself prior to joining Farcaster.

And in some cases have *become* friends because they stuck around early on when no one else cared. We've spent years with this people socializing on this social network. :)

Don't conflate something that's earned / built with cronyism.

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PFP is same across socials

I lose brain cells every time I read another piece like the ones written by @artlu @ghostlinkz.eth @geoffgolberg  

Like pls just write about what your concrete proposed solutions are. Everyone here knows what the problems are. You're not some gigabrains revealing the lost city of Atlantis to an unsuspecting population

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You are defintely losing brain cells that's for sure. What was the last piece you read from me, can you send the link?

It was your bit about how many bots there are and tagged a bunch of people that weren’t bots and you were like “to me you are. Or at least your content is which is the same thing.”

See this is the problem with Farcaster. Etc etc. and how your anecdotal experience shows this problem with Farcaster.

Bots are without question a problem but they way you went about it I was like huh wut

Data

The problem with the Warpcast Power Badge is that many spammers have it. Here's a list of the top 100 casts with the most recasts in the last 24 hours, made by users with the Power Badge  data.hubs.neynar.com/public/dashboards/b1FfpKPs0IPEVvsopekEgCrlJK7a8CqARAeMRSvC

To create a clean list, I had to manually filter out 145 FIDs that are spamming but still have the Power Badge. You can find the list of these accounts here docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SMqs9VqucNo93k9doDJZMBtUwp4OjuzdwLjBo22MnNA

If I can identify these accounts with a reasonable amount of effort, then so can the Warpcast team. As it stands, the Power Badge is not very useful. Don’t just take my word for it, analyze the data via @neynar

I tried to show how the power badge was not good at identifying spammers/farmers. Merkle decided to do away with it. 

I also tried to show that most $degen tipping comes from spammers/farmers. But I didn't even really need to since you can just look at each airdrop leaderboard on degen.tips to see what im talking about. 

I could have presented the data differently or reworded my casts, but the story the data tells would remain the same

https://warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0x3a5cf84b 
https://warpcast.com/ghostlinkz.eth/0xe8f0edf1

I’m still convinced he was trolling for engagement