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Dan Romero
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Why don't you clean up "the bots"? Useful to be precise here: "bots" is a catch all term that people use to describe low effort, uninteresting or otherwise off-topic content. However, a "bot" is traditionally thought of as a programmatic account, i.e. controlled by a script or software. e.g. bot net When people on Farcaster refer to "bots" they are more often referring to actual people using a mobile device (with the aid of translation tools and ChatGPT) who post uninteresting content (from their pov). They are casting and replying in hopes of appearing to be a "real account" because they have learned that turns into a future economic reward in crypto. Recent tipping meta has increased the expected value of these accounts. It's possible to algorithmically label these accounts, but then you create a "shadowban" meta. So you massively increase the number of support messages and complaints. This was the state of the world before priority mode.
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Yeah I remember someone at gitcoin mentioning that sybil detection is basically a never ending game. You create a solution to bots then someone creates a counter to your solution and so on. Imo the current best way to deal with this is to better cluster similar users(ik - easier said than done). Also, introduce follows based on channels and common nfts/poaps instead of just the default follow list. The current default follow list leads to a few people gaining a lot of bot followers.
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