Recently, I've seen a bunch of social mining/points tasks again, with "identity," "badges," and "levels" made to look like job promotions. Frankly, points are just converting your time and attention into a string of backend numbers, while also training you to develop muscle memory: signing in daily, reposting, @-mentioning three people... You think you're stacking up future airdrops, but they're actually building retention and data.

What's more annoying is that many projects package "identity" as a ticket, but behind the ticket there's no moat, and the rules can be changed at will. The set of blockchain games that collapse is actually the same: inflation kicks in, studios enter the scene, token prices spiral, and all that's left are more competitive tasks and cheaper points.

My current approach is very crude: only do interactions that directly improve security or trading experience, other badges are optional. Anyway, no matter how shiny the badges are, they can't help you avoid getting cut. That's how it is for now.