The creator pad algorithm lacks human common sense, why do I say this? Due to the autofarming or false engagement that has been seen in the last 3 creator pad campaigns I participated in. I had been absent because I didn't think the old algorithm was fair and I saw that many colleagues returned in the campaign of $ROBO and they did well.
However, I have been very curious and go beyond many things, the last straw was during the Sign Protocol campaign where shamelessly, disrespectfully and without scruples a group of users self-farmed likes and comments, and that is where the algorithm considers that interaction valid.
I expressed my opinion in post X exposing users who copied each other's posts that obtained many points. I tried that strategy and didn’t achieve the same results as them, so what’s going on? Sounds strange, right?
That post generated a lot of controversy, with even the two users responding with excuses, many comments supporting my claim, really. And what happened? Nothing in the new campaign of @Pixels , it remains the same and I'll show you with evidence the difference between naturally boosted engagement by the same algorithm vs the organized by communities that those users have on Twitter (I have an insider who gave me that info).
Artificial Likes & Comments
It's not bad to help or interact with posts from campaign participants; it's something normal. But spending many hours in square liking and commenting just to get likes back is already auto farming.
What normally happens when posting your article is Binance Square boosts your content based on whether it likes it, quality of writing, etc. And this shows up first on your feed, where you get organic engagement because this type of interaction is commonly seen in trading signal posts where people feel attracted to comment and like. But tell me, who will have more than 100 comments on a pixel post if we already know it’s a mature game with a good reputation? That’s where the false engagement comes in.
I was comparing users from both leaderboards, Global vs Chinese, and the difference in the Chinese leaderboard is staggering. It looks much more natural how points are assigned to posts that barely reach 1000 views and with less than 20 likes, they are positioned in the top 100.
On the other hand, the Global leaderboard is a disaster, and it's so simple that anyone can notice it, yet they do nothing?
Is the question whether the Pixel game is paying to run a global campaign for 200 people to like and comment on each other's posts? Is that the true reach for the game or Dapp to expand? We need to think like the client too, which in this case are the projects launched on Creator Pad.
The same pattern of the organized community
Now, let's look at the common pattern among this group of people who organizedly spend more than 12 hours commenting and liking other users' posts. Well, due to the consistency, it could be that users sending their posts in groups on external platforms (you'll see something about that later).
In that image, I gathered some profiles that have this pattern; I could spend all day doing it, and the result is the same: they have more than 100 likes almost all and more than 200 comments because it's a job of commenting on other people's posts besides their own to trick the algorithm, and they do it well because they're at the top of the global leaderboard. Enter for yourself and see those profiles; their common posts on other topics don’t reach 20 likes or 1000 views.
And the algorithm is fooled because at the start, when it sees that false interaction, it boosts views, and that’s why they see high view counts (note that views cannot be auto farmed; they are given by Binance).
In that compilation, you can clearly see the auto farming of comments and likes. While I was gathering information on users from the top 100, I did see some who earned more than 180 points in 2 days with posts or articles that had few likes and comments, where what those people wrote was taken into account. Of course, most users in the top are auto farming, spending hours simply liking and commenting, and again my question is, doesn't anyone notice this? Am I the only one? Why is no one doing anything about it? Internal complaints are made in the square, and the response is 'we found nothing that violates the rules.'
Points assigned legally
Here opens a debate because many in past campaigns complained about users with no likes, few followers being awarded a good amount of points. It's relative, but here the responsibility is on the square team and the algorithm; perhaps the content made by AI is valuable and pleasing. For example, these users, to me, were given points for the quality of their posts. This user, at the close of April 16, was the No. 20 on the leaderboard with 180 points in just 2 days, meaning they must have received more than 80 or 90 global points on April 16.
Now we see another scenario, user No. 21 with few likes and views but a good score, and the rest of their publications are similar. Now the question is, I see something peculiar; the user is Chinese, their description is Asian. I don’t know if that’s taken into account because that’s another topic—the preference for Chinese users.
What do smart users do?
Those who are sharp and smart enough to hide their auto farming, conceal the responses section from their profile, which is what exposes their activity to the public. For example, this user in the Sign protocol campaign made it to the top 3 in the world of auto farming haha.
External Auto Farm Groups
I always suspected this, as it’s always the same people who comment on each other. Some used Binance's internal groups (very absurd), they realized and moved to external platforms where they send their links, and more than 150 users religiously go and comment and like... Vilely deceiving the innocent algorithm, so to speak.
I have several friends and insiders from these communities helping me find the source of this disaster, and this is the result of the investigation: to find the group on external networks where they do it; there may be many more.
The idea is for the algorithm to automatically detect when this anomaly happens and disqualify those accounts, which is very visible to everyone.
The other side of the coin, Chinese Leaderboard🚀
Let’s go to the other side of the planet! Chinaaaaa... how things are managed there is apparently fairer and clearer since they have an event just for them. As I mentioned a couple of paragraphs ago, here, looking at each profile on the leaderboard, it’s organic interaction, few likes, few comments, and poor views, and they have decent points, around 50 for each post, which is reasonable as the maximum is 100 points for each one. So far, I haven't noticed anyone achieving that.
I took some time looking at each Chinese profile and really, they don’t have much interaction among themselves, nor likes most of the time and very poor views; in quotes, the point assignment is fair based on content quality and not on the auto farming seen in the Global section.
For example, look at those posts, oh my!! There's one that has neither likes nor comments and only 65 views yet is in the top 5 with 180 points; it must be a really good article to achieve that. Here, the execution of the algorithm is a bit valid, and just like that, there are many, many. What I mean is that in China, things are more natural; each person posts their pixel stuff and forgets about it, goes trading, and due to their ingenuity or creativity, they earn points, which is more favorable under the rules of Creator Pad.
The challenge I pose to the organized community
If you really spend hours on each article, post, researching whitepapers, news about pixels, and go beyond, I propose those people stop wasting time seeking likes from others to trick the algorithm because if you trust what you write, you shouldn't have problems; you would get the same points without the artificial interaction you're doing.
The end of all this
Simply that Creator Pad be an attractive, fair, and reliable section so that many elite creators return to write about the projects you indicate every 15 days, and it’s true; many have stopped writing about these types of campaigns due to the unfairness, especially users from the Genesis era of Binance Square, founders recognized on external platforms.
Now the ones leading Creator Pad are the red envelope hunters who organized like traditional social networks to create false interaction.
A message for the Dapps that hire Creator Pad
When you partner up to make your projects visible and gain more popularity on the biggest exchange in the world, you want that, right? For more people to interact with your protocols, games, tokens, etc.
Or do they pay to create campaigns for a group of 200 or 300 people to engage in organized false interaction? That's not marketing, says the theory.
So I leave that reflection
It’s time to wrap it up
I expressed and am the voice of many KOLs who, out of fear, do not dare to write about what’s happening in Creator Pad. All the frustration of researching, writing, creating unique images, reading to write posts or articles and getting nothing in return? And when you investigate thoroughly, you see people with little knowledge or not well-known in the blockchain world taking all the glory creating posts full of AI and false interaction.
Well, I want Binance Square to be a fair and clean place; I’ve been in Binance for over 6 years and have seen it grow, and what’s happening now I don’t like!
Greetings, your friend RoYoK.
P.S.: I expect the haters to respond hahaha
