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Varun Srinivasan
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sounds great! Couple questions: 1. Do you expect good/popular bot accounts to still get the badge? 2. Have you thought about how a unique-human badge might work?
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Can power-badge ppl get a button to report spam? They should NOT get a promote button because then it’ll just be boardroom of tech bros helping each other
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@automod support at launch would be great. Filtering by AB has helped trim spam a lot in /degen.
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can it be tranched/graded?
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Interesting technical product challenge. I would be curious to learn about the insights and process designing it, even just at a high level (abstracting away sensitive specifics of the algo).
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Very cool. Never understood why Twitter didn’t take an approach like this. If a power user marks something as spam it should quickly get taken down. Or if a handful do.
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need to make sure the starting group is diverse enough to cover the interests of all users, else it will just entrench certain interests and prob stifle emergent subcultures
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Will it take into consideration past data and be applied retroactively to accounts that meet these new requirements, or will it only be looking at data from a more recent period (i.e this week)?
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Why do some users don't get an active badge even though they have more than 400 followers ? For example me 😂
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love this. gg
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@callmejojo what do you think??
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thank you
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How do you judge the quality of Cast in other languages? As good relationships with OGs become valued, many users will focus on replying to specific OGs to earn badges. it's so boring For example, human verification using wallet scores is more honest.
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