1/3 - 🧵 Amplify was built to reward creators bringing genuine attention to @wolfswapdotapp But we also need to talk about engagement farming. Take @ibmcrypt_sol Joined X in October 2024. Around 3K followers. 84,000+ posts already. That works out at well over 100 posts/replies per day on average. Scroll the activity and you’ll regularly see replies fired out minutes apart: “Good morning” “Happy new week” “Done already” “I will check it out soon” “Ready to go to the battlefield” Then look at the accounts surrounding the posts. The same high-volume reply accounts repeatedly like, repost and reply to one another with the exact same generic comments. One recent Wolfies post from IBM showed roughly: 670 views 48 reposts (ridiculously high ratio of reposts compared to likes) 15 likes Another Wolfswap post: 726 views 56 likes 16 reposts (much more normal.behaviour) Now go to Amplify and look at the two new Amplify missions and who participated. Check the stats out for yourself. Its clear as day that @ibmcrypt_sol is engagement farming these missions. His stats are way way way above average. Go see for yourself. I’m all for supporting each other. I do it every day. But there’s a difference between community engagement and deliberately manufacturing engagement to climb a rewards leaderboard.

2/3 This is where it gets more interesting. You repeatedly find other extremely high-volume “reply guy” style accounts around the same content. They repost each other. Reply to each other. Like each other. Then move onto the next post. It does look a lot like reciprocal engagement farming than genuine organic interest. When the same type of accounts repeatedly amplify each other, that’s something a rewards programme like Amplify should be paying attention to.