Users with priority mode turned on, like priority mode.

Users without the power badge, don’t like priority mode and want more visibility to users with priority mode turned on.

Making power badge more permissive, increases spam. Makes everyone unhappy (except the spammers)

Solve for X.

Power badge has flaws, but haven't seen a concrete proposal for a deterministic alternative to the power badge.

Most suggestions for improvement are: "sounds like a hard problem, but whatever system you put in place should give me the power badge." :)

Make tiers of Power Badges. Right now it's day and night. PBs interact only with PBs. Everyone else might just be a bot, and it's cumbersome to check, so to hell with them - some might think.

By having tiers you'll show the advancement to a regular user and make them interact more with each other.

Make sure to give up when it gets really hard

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Thank you so much! 🙏 
4-5k power badges makes sense when you have 50k active users or so.
But we are over 500k and the small ranks would like to stand out from the bot crowd so at least people we reply to know who we are. And the top rankers don't get to lose their uniqueness!