It would add a nice layer of friction for alt accounts made for stirring trouble, but I fear gamifying it like that would just add hurdles for new users too. I like replying to highbies because I get more discussion and replies than if I had tried to make a post myself for my few followers
yeah - highbies serve a purpose, creating topical mini forums in their replies... but I've unfollowed most all of them on Twitter and just post to my moots, now that I have enough of them to get decent replies
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Reply · May 31, 2023I'd really enjoy Twitter more if the big discourse accounts & celebs had reasonable engagement instead of so much pandering and stupid insultsReply · May 31, 2023yeah... haha I had suggested a weaker version of this for Twitter - new accounts can only reply to lowbies until they earn X Likes from OPs since last…Reply · Apr 13, 2023haha yeah I think the smarter highbies are at least joining to claim their name and gain followers who wanna look them up here, so if/when this…Reply · May 6, 2023yeah, I've said this before... think it'd be cool if new signups were grouped into cohorts auto-following each other & encouraged to engage... less…