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Experiment: Hiding power badges

Power badges will be hidden on Warpcast for a week. We’re running this experiment because:

1. New user find it hard to get follows due to “power badge bias”
2. Power badge isn’t being used much in Warpcast anymore.

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If users are happy with the outcome, power badge might: 

1. become a developer-only thing 
2. be removed entirely 

we'll discuss this after the week is over. the change should be rolling out today.

It doesn't make sense to keep showing the power badge if its not being used by Warpcast, which is why we want to test this change. 

Power badge data will still be available to Dune, Neynar etc while the experiment is running.

That's a very good point, Ake. 🖤 🖤 50 $DEGEN

you created, you de-created, all fine, the relevant is good content and visibility for users if content is ok, will be more difficult for the art community as machine learning needs to know that a photography, an image (png, jpepg, video, gid) are quality good  content too with a basic text like my great creation: (image file)....this is the point for artists...

Once upon a time, a power badge was needed to show up in conversations.

That's no longer the case - Warpcast uses machine learning to find low quality content and move it into "Show more" 

It's good for users because the machine learning models a lot more accurate than the power badge was.

there were a bunch on my LNC cast from last night... but I guess if you can hide them in the more replies section then who cares if they have storage or not

https://warpcast.com/matthew/0xaf71c35d

can you send me a few examples if you come across more spam?

would be helpful to have some kind of "distance on social graph" badge if power badge does go away.

Agree a hard coded list is hard to scale / get new users on. But no visual cue is also annoying, esp when I've noticed increasing # of spammy users in priority mentions lately.

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Depends on how much the current algo overlaps with PB. 

It seems many channels use it for moderation, would be good to have some numbers on where it is still used by other tools that interact with Warpcast.

Is this a visual update only? 

Do the badged still get boosted to priority notifs?

I don’t know what a power badge is and at this point I’m afraid to ask

Man I thought I lost my badge and panicked 😂

Nouns

Instead of a power badge can we show a badge for streaks + quality on the channel posts. Basically like a high quality poster for specific channels only. So if someone posts to /nouns consistently and with quality it's marked as such? So no longer profile specific.

looking forward to seeing how this next week goes

Sounds good! We all will be on the same level🥂

This is only on front-end Warpcast correct? Tweaking auto-follow and now power badge visibility are good experiments. We want new users to feel welcome and as even an opportunity for all who want to grow on Farcaster.

great idea, I followed a new user who pushed warpcast and made something