The active badge is going away.

Spammy accounts are aggressively gaming the system to get the badge. 
Making the rules stricter just makes it harder for legitimate users.

We’re past the point where a simple rule based system will work. We need something better.

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Power badges show up on user profile, just like the old active badges. 

They're intended to be a signal of quality to users browsing Warpcast, and to frame developers and other devs building in the ecosystem. 

Warpcast will make power badges available over an API.

At launch, the power badge will have many fewer false positives (spammy users with the badge) and a few more false negatives (good users without the badge).

It’s at a point where its already better than active badge for most purposes, and we will continue iterating and improving it every week.

How do I get the power badge?

Since it is network-based, there isn’t a guaranteed way to get it. The best approach is to:

1. Use the app weekly.
2. Cast things that other power users like, reply to or recast.
3. Avoid casting things that power users find spammy.

Will the algorithm be made public?

No, for two reasons:

1. It becomes easier to game, as we’ve seen with the active badge.
2. It is going to change often as we dial in the parameters.

We expect this first version to be directionally right but not perfect. It will take many iterations before we get this right.

We expect it to launch later this week. If you have any questions or feedback, we’d love to hear it now and factor it into our design.

So the PageRank is just a way to determine who gets the Power Badge or is it also utilized in feed algos?

Introducing the Power Badge, a new ranking system from Warpcast.

It uses a PageRank-like approach to recursively find power users who are active and post content that the rest of the network finds interesting.

Unlike the active badge, it does not have a set of rules that you can follow to earn the badge.

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Most of the complaints about spammy behavior come from real humans.

So a unique human badge probably wouldn’t help much.

Wish there was also a unique human badge using Worldcoin

would be nice to give my bot a bot badge, like is required for automated accounts on twitter

I vote no badge. Why make it a contest in the first place?

nooooooooo i've been gaming it for ages (for the sake of all of us, legitimate users)

what will i do now???

I am ready to acquire the powerful Power badge

timeline to remove active badge? and when power badges will be added?

how would developer attribution work for frames?

https://open.spotify.com/track/07NxDD1iKCHbAldceD7QLP?si=kGoXnX1wTjyNrZOpROf3NA

brb gonna find a way to make my active badge an NFT

Wen pulling onchain social graph to auto-add mutual follows for artist/collector frens? Why make us run on the samo [sic] hamster wheel as do on web2 social?

Need a crypto-powered social network to think more from crypto-first principles tbh

This is the crypto-first century, no?

about time, the alignment of incentives was making it worse ngl

I feel like no badge is better at this point is hard not to determine its role is not engagement farming, and you got what it was meant for. 

In the long run engagement farming is detrimental to any social media network we saw that time and time again.

Me receiving my P̶h̶D̶ active badge on farcaster this week🥲

Thank you to everyone who showed up to my zoom award ceremony💜