There is a great parable about starfish that I often reflect on when I am faced with an overwhelming problem that seems impossible to fix on my own and when I think about Warpcast Spam Labels, they are a huge problem. Having a "0" label makes you ineligible for Warpcast Rewards and developers are starting to use them to limit access to Farcaster native tools. Spam is a huge issue and not easy to fix. The algorithm will get better over time, but it's far from perfect. You can take action right now to make it better.
The starfish parable tells the story of a young boy walking along a beach where thousands of starfish have washed ashore, and he diligently picks them up one by one, throwing them back into the ocean to save them from dying on the sand. An older man approaches and asks why he's doing this; he can't possibly save all of the starfish. The boy replies, "But I can make a difference to this one."
Today, over 242,780 Farcasters have a Level 0 Spam Label, meaning they are likely to be spammers. We can't check them one by one and see if they are a false positive; there are too many. But there is an action you can take right now and showcase the power of individual actions, no matter how small they may seem. You can save one starfish.
You can use the Dune query below to find out who YOU follow that has a Level 0 Spam Label. You will need to sign up for a FREE Dune account, add your FID to the query and change the Spam Label to 0 and run it. https://dune.com/queries/4633642
Who are you following with a label? Are they honestly being spammy? Check their account and look at their recents casts. Use my guide to help your decide. Please remember this is guidance, not gospel.
The Unwritten Rules of Warpcast: Avoiding Spam Labels (V2)
It's time to stop being polite and start being real. Farcaster is a super cool open protocol, but Warpcast, the main client 95% of us use to engage with it, is a closed sandbox with a lot of unwritten rules and culture that you have to figure out to do well.
If you 1000% believe some of the people you follow that have a "0" label are incorrect and you are willing to stake your reputation on it, please plead your case to the Warpcast team on the cast linked below. Save a starfish and change someone's entire Warpcast experience.
Varun Srinivasan on Warpcast
If you see any people labelled 0 (definitely spam) that shouldn't be, please reply with their profiles here @pichi Will build something more scalable in the future, but for now this will be very helpful.
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Warpcast Spam label updates Check who's label has been changed an when! It has been 3 weeks since the Warpcast Spam labels have been made public and their datasets have been updated twice. I made a new dataset in Dune to track all label changes week over week, you can find them here: https://dune.com/queries/4680804
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Great work, as usual. Appreciate you. 50 $degen
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I would kill to see some of this data compared with this: https://dune.com/pixelhack/farcaster Like those 80% of casts with no engagement . Are they level 0/1? Is this why everyone’s engagement feels so down? It is because less people are here or just less engagement is “counted”. I was stalking your “am I being farmed” dashboard and it was crazy to see how slow things have gotten. Maybe it’s just me.
Whew. 😅
I cant see my name 🥹
Probably no change so not show hahahah
Yeah that's it! You're in the other query
great dashboard, nice to keep track for me, hope i will stay a 2
so if we don't see names, that means not on spam label?
that means no updates, you could still have a spam label
i don’t see my name so no change i guess 😅
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🚀 This week, we’ve made significant progress! The frame and browser extension have been fully synchronized. This week, we’ve seen a positive growth in the number of users: 1) 2,572 new users have received tags. 2) This represents a 0.53% growth compared to last week. 3) We continue to improve the platform, and we truly appreciate your The stats show that only 8.79% of the community is producing valuable content. This number highlights the huge potential we have to improve the platform by focusing on creating meaningful and high-quality content. Valuable content can have a positive impact on user experience and drive further growth and advancement within the community. Let’s all work together to focus on producing more valuable and insightful content.
So I’m feeling that many people lost their “Good caster” status and dropped from 2 to 1/0?
Exactly! I hardly see any truly valuable posts from others! Most people just post content that doesn’t bring any new experiences—in fact, it’s just a repetition of old posts, solely for the sake of engagement! There’s no clear or constructive purpose behind them. It’s terrible.
This has been really insightful as to what the team wants posted here and what they want the culture to be. I’m learned a lot but seeing what they classify as spammy and who makes the leaderboard consistently.
GM friend
Do you have any plans to support or incentivize high-quality content creators? I think this could accelerate the platform's growth.
We can think about it.😊
Wow, a lot of my following is a stuck in spam jail. It doesn’t really hit you until you look at the numbers as percentages.
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That’s gotta be me fam… 🥲 Can’t even post videos anymore, what am I gonna do about /fireball drops?! 😅
This is everything I know. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
Thanks fam, I’ll investigate! 🫡 🍖 x 111
is it likely or possible that most of those ARE spammy?
No clue. I analyzed who I follow and reduced the starfish I could. I can’t make people follow or unfollow me so it’s more just an interesting data set to look at and compare to the overall data set. @mvr and @compez.eth frames track the wider network. This is how to analyze who you follow and i think this has the biggest impact. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
Ahaaah! Lady of data! nice move! 🤌
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Wow. What a shocking fact. I've noticed that many of my new followers don't seem like real people. How can I get this data Pichi? On the other hand, is it possible to get the updated dune of the tags, the one you mention in your article?
Here is the query. It’s less “actionable” because you can’t make people follow or unfollow you. https://dune.com/queries/4633621?fid_n26d66=195117
Thanks Pichi!. I just checked it, the result is very sad 😥.
It is surely interesting. Did you make the chart yourself or is there an automated tool that can help make it?
I made it. I didn’t want to keep bugging @mvr and @compez.eth so I ran the Dune query myself and made it.
Nice. Now I want to make one myself just to see. Haha brb
Okay banger! :D
😱 Not good considering the renewed push to bring people onchain
I think we all have to lean in and make safe spaces (channels) for new people to land. And we have to save friends marked as spam: https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
Just bookmarked this! Gonna read this later after family
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Surprising! How do you see this?
Using a Dune dashboard. You can’t really do anything about this. You can’t make people follow or unfollow you so it’s not really actionable as much as interesting.
Since the rewards leaderboard just reset, I think this cast is important. The best thing you can do as an individual is review who YOU follow and take action. Unfollow spammy accounts. Get your friends out of spam jail. Here’s how to do it: https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
Hey, I have basically 2 questions: can unfollowing spammy accounts lead to getting friends out of spamjail? Or is it by verifying the results in the Dune query. If so, I am having a hard time getting that page to display the results. I get 91 rows, but I don't know how to make it so that I can actually see them. Do you have a suggestion?
Something is blocking. Try another browser or turn off ad blockers. Unfollowing spammy accounts removes their power. You give them credibility by following them. Getting people out of jail is different.
How to get friends out of spam jail
It’s all in the article I linked.
Brilliant article, thanks for helping out fam🖤 But, the single most beautiful thing I read in there is this: “but I can make a difference to this one” No action is useless. thanks, it was really beautiful to read for me🫂
Thank you so much! Your words and kindness mean a lot to me! Sometimes I feel like I can’t make a difference here but I tried to reframe it and realize that if I make one person’s experience better, maybe they will pay it forward and start a chain reaction. Maybe I don’t have to solve the spam problem. I just have to save one mislabeled person and that’s enough.
Oooooh you’re breaking a wide open door on this one🫠 I’m probably the biggest believer of the /butterflyeffect Imagine changing someone’s day, and that person changes someone else’s day because of you, and so on till Infinity🖤 Kindness and appreciation are a super powerful tool, often discouraged by the society we live in. And to finish, after I read and talked with you a bit, it’s insane how all this time we knew eachother but never talked/interacted too much. Because I can feel our vibrations are really close to each other now🖤 IT’S ALL LOVE🫂
Fabulous article, I put this into practice, and I decided to collaborate with those who deserve more visibility and not collaborate with those who do not deserve it at all!
Thanks for saving a galaxy of starfish!
Thank you for being the forerunner of the movement!
Does engaging on other people's casts also count if they reply back? Or is it only based off of engagement on our direct casts?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I assume it’s one way like Moxie but I have no data here to support that.
@kyotoguide is has spam label 0
I know. It got it in less than 48 hours. I’m sad.
i ran your query and that bot and another i follow had spam labels
@einbard It seems you're referencing a classification task. If a message has a "spam label 0," it typically means the message is not considered spam. If you have more context or a specific question about it, feel free to share!
When spam labels were updated this week, 1,400 people went from “not spammy” to “spammy”. What do you think people are doing to trigger the algorithm? Is it just getting more aggressive? Always looking to update my guidance and appreciate any feedback. https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/the-unwritten-rules-of-warpcast-avoiding-spam-labels
@claude can you read my paragraph article and provide feedback?
checked it out. solid guide on staying authentic. one thing to add - spam detection likely uses velocity metrics (sudden bursts of activity) + network clustering patterns. natural engagement builds gradually ☁️
That’s a great point! I will add this in!
I really appreciate your documentation @pichi . I have investigated all my followers with tag 0. In general terms, most of them abuse frames, AI images, profiles without genuine photos and I share publications with giveaways. I think that the giveaway posts contribute a lot to constantly generating spam on the network. I appreciate everything you do !!
This one really stood out to me and I’m modifying accordingly. We rarely get insight into what the team/algo doesn’t love and this couldn’t be more clear to me. https://warpcast.com/v/0x0e31071c
I totally agree with that observation. It's one thing to do a giveaway occasionally. But overusing it creates interaction that isn't genuine. Once you don't have an incentive, people just abandon the activity there. That is, you have a lot of just farmers who will also spam the posts. Do you think the same?
Ooooo update?!
2 days ago. Me and @compez.eth and @mvr stalk this. https://github.com/warpcast/labels
I immediately checked the label frame lol. Is @compez.eth and @mvr still planning on releasing a frame that shows the ppl you follow who have the spam label and the followers you have that are spammy? I’m not asking this question like a “ why isn’t it out yet?” I’m genuinely curious if it’s still something on the insanely well paved road map
I have watched @mcilroyc & @stashbox get suppressed by spam labels this week. https://warpcast.com/stashbox/0xd0ff10dd https://warpcast.com/mcilroyc/0x1b7229dd
Feels more aggressive this week, but it’s still early.
I just wish my voice helped more. maybe I need to rickroll some people into helping others — lure them with jokes and memes and then bait and switch, they are interacting with someone new!
Well written. I learned a few new things like don't smash the recast button. Thank you! 100 $degen
I have read your articles carefully, they are a treasure! I have followed the recommendations you have indicated: - I almost completely stopped using Frames (I use them once or twice a week but with my comments!). - I practically stopped quoting, now only Quote with my thoughts. - I use only original content, my own photos and text (not counting memes with my comments). - I don't tag friends who aren't my friends. - I'm REPLY only in channels And I'm tagged as a spammer... I've completely changed my approach and nothing changes. The only reason I can think of is that I used some giveaways like Degen Rain, but I thought it was an official advertisement... Now I plan to stop this kind of activity completely, because I don't know what to do anymore... I have a great account with good content and the Spammer tag is killing me
Wow! It sounds like you’ve really been thoughtful about your approach and are working hard. The spam algorithm only runs once a week and I’m not sure if it rechecks everyone, so it may take time. But I think you are on the right path. I hope this is short term pain for long term gain and your label gets updated soon. I think this is a slow process! Here are some hints the team dropped. https://warpcast.com/v/0x0e31071c Remember all the tipping games and Moxie are done by their own teams and not Warpcast. So what their algo rewards and what the Warpcast algo likes are very very different.
Thanks for the reply and recommendations @pichi ! I realized that many of my interactions in projects like Moxie can negatively affect my account and I have changed my behavior for several weeks now. Now no excessive interactions, likes, etc. I chose my priority and it's Farcaster, I like that the quality of content is prioritized here. If you have a wish, you can look at my account and make your own conclusions. Thank you very much for your work!
Thank you pichi, now I understood why I am tagged as spammy😅, i guess its because of #5, I tend to reply to people I saw on my feed without checking if they follow me or not or if they casted on a channel I joined… 150 $degen
It’s annoying to have to pay so much attention, but the filter is really aggressive. If you stick to channels you can’t get a spam label.
I am cleaning my following now😅, so i dont get confused and join channels as much as i can Thank you once again❤️
@compez.eth is cooking. Right now, you have to use his frame and check your friends manually using their FID or use @mvr Dune query to run your following and check labels. But this would make it super easy to save your friends from Warpcast jail! Want to know how to help them right now? I wrote it up in an article with steps and all the links you need below.
https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
Trying to fix my open rank Any help with that?
Mine hasn’t moved in 6 months. It’s really hard to move the needle on it. You have to get people with high scores to consistently engage with you and follow you. And that’s hard because everyone cares about different content. I think it’s best to find small channels with people you have things in common with and engage with them a lot.
Yeah I'll try that!! Thank you!!
Friends, I share with you this fabulous article that @pichi wrote. As she suggests there, I created the account in Dune and searched for profiles with tag 0 that follow my FC account. The result was that 357 of my followers have that tag. I took the time to analyze them 1 by 1 and although nobody knows how the algorithm that issues the tags works, I tell you: A) the vast majority of these profiles publish meaningless frames, that is, without any added value. This rarely generates interaction. B) they publish excessive images that are not their own or created by AI. I give you MY opinion people on points a) and b). When I see profiles like this, they do not generate any interest in me, because all their content is low effort. Of course, I am not the algorithm, but what if it thinks similarly? Within those 357 profiles, there are authentic people. I will send a note to the creators of FC through Pichi. I hope I can help them. 🫶🫂 https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
Thank you for saving a galaxy of starfish!
Thank you for fighting for people too, I admire you for that 🙏
I see the problems the Warpcast team is dealing with on a super small scale and it frustrates me so much because I know they have to implement things to protect the network and keep us all here in the app by not being bombarded by terrible accounts…but a lot of folks fall through the cracks. The crypto native pond is too small. We can’t lose good casters. If everyone who’s super active saves just one mislabeled person, it could mean the difference from them ghosting the app and telling everyone how awful it is, or having an amazing time bringing their friends over. And we all need to clean up our following. My list was small because I unfollowed everyone as an experiment. But if everyone cleans up their list of bad accounts, those accounts no longer have reach and power. Our follows give them power.
Thank you for your insights. These line up well with what I have witnessed during my time here as well. I believe that the algo has been very good a spotting real spam and improving significantly on reducing false positives.
Thanks for the good vibes. I think the algorithm is good at detecting accounts that don't add anything good to the network. Of course, it's not perfect, and that's why there are still errors. As Pichi says, if we take the time to collaborate, we can help perfect it by notifying those who make the error.
sometimes it is hard time for new users, they wanna show up. and find as much as follower, so will engage with lot of ppl they dont know before. i say this cz i was like this before
You're right. It's happened to me too. That's why I created this channel. To help people become more visible and have genuine connections. So they can see the difference between interacting with authentic people and interacting with those who only generate garbage for the network.
oh. i found so much my friend on there. so i just need to tell v on that link to save them?
@hankmoody, you've been paid 1.0 unit(s) of storage (cross-chain) by @hankmoody 🗄
Thank you very much I have tried to follow these things in this chapter and not use frames, of course, I have to use a translator or sometimes AI to translate texts, but I try to do less
I think that everything can be used, but always adding value, so that it is not empty content.
I'm trying to be a little cautious this season @jacek is no longer credited and may declare anything as the reason for the ban. I even released my own degen and only locked 20k
Is it included? I don't know where my mistakes are, until I enter the spam account Even though I always share my real pictures, not AI
In just 5 minutes, you can save someone from Warpcast Spam Jail! In a few clicks you can find out who YOU follow that has a spam label and save them! https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
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Thanks for hanging with us last night and for the tips!!! Hopefully we all got a little moxie for our fan tokens too!
Thanks for this @pichi, it's fabulous! 50 $degen
Thanks so much for reading! Let’s save some starfish!!!
You can bet I will!
@pichi. Once again, I want to thank you for this great article. And I wanted to ask for your opinion. Thanks to this: 1) I stopped following many people who only post garbage. 2) I stopped following people who have not posted anything for more than 10 days. 3) I realized that many are not even people. 4) I found people who are really worth it with this bad tag. Even people who have been interviewed on my channel and who have told about themselves. QUESTION: How can I save those stars, since the creators of FC do not follow me. If I tag them, they will not even read my request. What do you suggest I do?
I’d post in the thread I linked at the very bottom. They are reading it!!!
great! thanks Pichi!
Love this write up. You’re amazing for helping others and caring like this. P.S. Happen to have this pic of a purple starfish. 😉
Omg it’s so cute!!!! And thanks for the shoutout! If we each save one it will make a difference!
Amazing, so good to know! 25 $degen
Thanks for reading and the tip!!!
I’m about to sit down to report my false 36 zeroes
You are about to save a galaxy of star fish. PS. I love collective nouns.
Thank you Pichi! Great work. But the translation may not make me understand well. If I put a friend's gif and spam 0 comes out, I should change it to 2, right? The translation tells me that I should change it to 0
0 is the worst spam label. It means the algorithm thinks the account is spammy. 2 is the best label everyone wants. It means the algorithm thinks you are a good caster and unlikely to be spammy. We have to save friends with 0 labels first!
Yes, I understood that. But how do you do it?
Lol “gif” no, Fid
lol, my phone does this autocorrect too!
thank you so much for helping your community 🍖 x50 $DEGEN
Thank you for the kind words and the tips!!!
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I will work on this. Thank you for giving us the tools to save some starfish, Pichi. 🫂 50 $DEGEN
Thanks for reading and the tip! if you save more than one, you can say you saved a galaxy of starfish!
Thank you so much for your work! You make Farcaster better Very convenient search for 0 accounts through dune! I reread all your work and made a lot of conclusions for myself.
Tonight’s State of the Union will NOT be recorded. We’ve got 2 weeks worth of spam labels to chat through! How can you best help friends caught in spam jail? We will talk it out! Article below for those who can’t make it! https://events.xyz/8b035b
https://paragraph.xyz/@pichi/warpcast-spam-labels-and-starfish
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@jacque I hope you’re feeling well, babe — cause this one isn’t recorded and I need to hear your unedited takes!
@mcilroyc what are you doing in a few hours?
Hopefully listening in on this! Thanks for the heads up
I can’t wait to hear what journey @pichi has been on this week for the greater good and /farcasterunion 🤣🤘🏻
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key issue for web3 social. maybe time for community-driven verification mechanisms? reputation systems beat raw filtering ☁️