Curating Chaotic Channels

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Key Takeaways

1. New Moderator account designation for each channel gives a single account responsibility to Curate the Main channel feed.

2. Owners can use mod bots like Automod and Airstack to distribute curation authorization to multiple accounts.

3. Channel Owners are figuring out how they want to Curate their main feed. /purple, /memes, and /gaming are all taking different approaches.

Changes described here are live as of 5/23/24.

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Dan Romero on Warpcast

Decentralizing channels update 1. Phase 1 goes live Thursday morning Pacific time (May 23). 2. All channels will start in unmoderated / Priority mode. 3. Will be easy to add a moderator on mobile and web. https://warpcast.notion.site/Public-v2-Decentralized-Channels-535ffce48c95413ea81bc89d6170fd99?pvs=25

• Only 2 accounts matter for each channel

  1. Owner - account that owns the channel

  2. Moderator - could be owner, another caster, or a mod bot tool

• 2 feeds in Warpcast, a curated "Main" and unfiltered "Recent"

  • Casts get curated from "Recent" to "Main" by being liked by the Moderator account

  • Recent feed is made of ALL casts in that channel (even the stupid, off-topic ones)

• Terms that have specific meaning

  • Curate means highlight from Recent content stream into Main feed of a channel, requires Moderator to like the cast

  • Hide means remove content from Main feed

2 options for Main feed, moderated or unmoderated. See below image for details.

Unmoderated Priority mode works well as a default for Owners that aren't sure what they want to highlight yet.

Owners can have manual curation by setting themselves as Moderator, delegate to another caster, or distribute responsibility to a mod bot and grant their team authorization for access to the bot.

Additional changes in the first week since changes went live:

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Dan Romero on Warpcast

Update to channels If your channel has moderation turned on, the Recent feed is now in Priority mode—custom to each viewer based on who they follow + power badge users. This will eliminate nearly all spam. As moderator, you will see a special Unfiltered feed just for you. Does not apply to unmoderated channels.

• with moderation on, Recent feed is now shown in Priority mode

• Unfiltered feed available to channel owners

  • This feed is full of spam in my experience, but good to scroll through to curate good content into Main

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Dan Romero on Warpcast

New settings for channel owners - Turn off the Recent feed - Toggle the Main feed algo between - Moderation has to be on to use https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a1b8d913-da6f-4268-797b-d3565bc8d600/original

• Owners can turn off Recent feed if desired

• Choose between chronological or algorithmic Main feed

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jtgi on Warpcast

You can mix manual and automatic moderation with automod. Example: - Baseline filters on token holders or power badges. - Hand curate individual casts or add users to an allowlist. All directly in feed with cast actions. https://automod.sh/install/addToBypass https://automod.sh/install/like

Curate however you like by installing automod Cast Actions, can Hide content by removing from Main or Curate to move content into Main feed.

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jtgi on Warpcast

"How do I hide things from Main or curate them from Recent?" Create permissions for whoever you like and use cast actions. Grab cast action install links from: a. (new) Open up your moderators permissions and use the link. b. Search for 'automod' in https://warpcast.com/~/discover-actions https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/2b20e5f8-c003-4eaf-2a85-6d4751219f00/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/026c8050-431f-4ae2-bc8e-eb50d817c500/original

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Jason Goldberg on Warpcast

🚀 launch! powerful free Channel Moderation with Airstack channels can now moderate with hundreds of combos: Social Capital Rank Power Badge Follows NFTs Tokens POAPs much much more! our goal is to enable robust decentralized channel economies to flourish - today is a big 1st step! FAQ: link.airstack.xyz/mod

• current focus for the channel is retropgf round of funding for last 2 months of farcaster growth experiments

• owner wants to keep content focus on retropgf

@ccarella.eth requiring members + text "#retropgf" for top-level casts

@nonlinear.eth leading the charge with moving channel revenue on chain and redistributing the majority to the channel members via tipping

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Jonny Mack on Warpcast

subscribe to cast (~$1/mo) https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/collection/memes-1x0fzjq6ytfy8 an ✨experiment✨ in sustainable onchain channel monetization and shared upside. details below https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/collection/memes-1x0fzjq6ytfy8

A labor-intensive process that makes sense for channels that require a high level of manual curation, leveraging Automod's "Curate" cast action. But it's better than previous monetization with channel passes.

1. Better for channel owners - warps cannot be cashed out of warpcast

2. Better for mods - revenue for their work curating

3. Better for users - redistributing channel revenue to those that make the channel valuable

I've previously written about Cast Actions

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Customization is Coming

Farcaster Frames and Cast Actions combine caster context with app data to customize experiences on social media.

[Cast Actions] give users not only customized experiences, but also users can initiate those experiences on any cast. They are not limited to casts with that particular frame in them.

So channel mods can use the "Curate" action on any cast to move it from "Recent" to "Main" for channels. This decentralizes channel moderation from Warpcast to other tools such as Automod and Airstack and allows channel owners to distribute mod abilities.

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jtgi on Warpcast

"Can I create a team of curators with automod?" Yes. You can give anyone with a fid the ability to curate posts into Main. Add them as a Moderator in /automod and have them install the cast action below. Next week, you'll have the option to make it automatic from likes. https://warpcast.com/jtgi/0x1c63cdc8 https://automod.sh/install/like

@cameron, @riotgoools and me want to keep it simple and hard to game, and bring the focus back to curated relationships

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Cameron Armstrong on Warpcast

is there a good "default" channel setup for automod? trying to think of baseline rules for this new world where we have to have rules set up or live with the uggo 2-feed solution

Following automod rule set Curates casts into Main from casters who are followed by channel hosts/mods or have power badge.

This is confusing to read but is basically creating an OR logic gate using multiple NAND gates (thanks electrical engineering!)

This is subtly different from the unmoderated Priority Mode, the Owner's follows get curated versus Priority which shows casts from a viewer's follows. So it's a more focused and content curated by the channel owner's preferences rather than the viewer's.
Owner can also expand the trusted social graph by adding additional "User Is Not Followed By" rules within the ruleset.

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