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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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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.

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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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rest in power (badge)

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

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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.

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Ok now is gone 😂

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Just updated app & now is showing again

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Alberto Ornaghi

How this will affect notifications?

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cool, anything to help newcomers feel more welcome is a win

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If we look forward, like in 2-3 years when Farcaster has millions of users, something like a power badge is necessary, we saw X failed to deliver it because there are lots of scammers even with golden ticks but we all know here is different, quality control is much better than X but since we are working with wallets and wallets are vulnerable I believe Farcaster needs something like a real verification tick (Power badge) more than Web2 platforms like X just for the safety of unaware users

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pls share with us the finding afterwards! would be interesting to see how that affects engagement

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I always thought it was odd that everyone pays the same amount for an account yet without the power badge you were essentially shadow banned

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hide follows/followers next

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Love this experiment. 👍🏼

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all service no status RIP

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I still like power badges because they help me identify if I'm dealing with a legitimate account or a scammer trying to impersonate a project or user.

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