this is honestly hard to ignore… you can feel it’s coming from someone who’s actually been inside the system for a long time, not just reacting from the outside, and yeah the main issue isn’t even people gaming it, it’s that the system is currently rewarding that behavior more than real content, which slowly pushes serious creators out, and if that keeps going it doesn’t just hurt creators, it starts hurting trust in the whole platform itself

I have been on this platform for over four years. Not as a visitor. As a builder. I was here before Binance Square was even called Binance Square. Back when you had to send a request just to get access to post. I remember those days clearly because I was one of the people who sent that request and waited. Many of us were. And it is exactly that history that gives me the right to say what I am about to say.
This is not hate. This is not negativity. This is four years of loyalty speaking.
The algorithm update that was supposed to improve this platform has done the opposite for genuine creators. What it has done is turn coordinated fake engagement into the most powerful tool on the platform. Comment for comment. Like for like. Organized loops that have nothing to do with content quality and everything to do with gaming a broken system.
And I want to say this clearly — I do not blame the creators doing it. When a system rewards a behavior, people will follow that reward. That is not a character failure. That is logic. The failure belongs to the system and to the team that designed it.
But let us talk about what this actually means on the ground.
Creators who have spent years producing original research-based content are now getting buried. Accounts that were never competitive on merit are sitting at the top of CreatorPad because they have engagement loops running behind the scenes. And the creators who refuse to manufacture fake numbers because they actually respect this platform and its audience — those are the ones suffering the most.
Accounts with over 400K followers built over years of consistent genuine work are now struggling to reach even a few hundred views per post. That is not normal. That is not an organic fluctuation. Something is structurally wrong and everyone paying attention can see it.
Meanwhile companies are paying real money for CreatorPad campaigns expecting real reach to real audiences. But if the top spots are occupied by accounts riding fake engagement waves then those companies are paying for an illusion. That is not just unfair to creators. That is a commercial integrity problem for Binance Square as a business.
There is also something else that needs to be addressed openly. The shadow ban reality. Accounts with 400K plus followers getting a few hundred views per post. That gap is not natural and every serious creator on this platform knows it. There is a growing feeling that established voices who speak up are being quietly suppressed while new accounts with no track record get pushed to the front. If that is true it is one of the most damaging things a platform can do to its own community.
Look at how Twitter handles coordinated inauthentic behavior. Accounts that engage in organized fake engagement get flagged. They get warnings. Repeat offenders get labeled publicly. The platform takes a clear position because it understands that ecosystem integrity is worth protecting. Binance Square deserves that same standard.
To the entire Binance Square feed team and leadership — @Binance Square Official @Yi He @Richard Teng @CZ @Binance Customer Support — we are not your enemies. We are the people who were here before the growth, before the campaigns, before the rewards system existed. We posted because we believed in the vision. And that belief is exactly why we are still here raising these issues instead of quietly walking away.
We are your earliest warning system. Creators feel platform problems before anyone else does because we are the ones posting every single day watching the numbers and seeing the patterns. When we raise concerns please do not treat it as noise. It is signal. And right now that signal is very loud.
What needs to happen is clear. Review how engagement interactions are weighted in the algorithm. Restructure or remove engagement points from CreatorPad so they cannot be exploited. Take a public stance on coordinated fake engagement the way other serious platforms do. And communicate with your creator community honestly. Tell us what is being done. Silence from the team while creators are suffering is not a neutral position — it sends a message.
Four years ago I believed this platform could become something special. I still believe that. But a platform that suppresses its most loyal voices while rewarding manufactured engagement is not growing — it is decaying slowly from the inside.
We are not asking for favors. We are asking for fairness. Fix the algorithm. Protect CreatorPad. Let real content reach real people. And be the platform that you told us you wanted to be — a genuine space for builders not a copy of every other social media platform that chose metrics over meaning.
We love Binance Square. That love is why we are still here. That love is why we keep speaking even when it feels like no one is listening.
But love without honesty is not loyalty — it is silence. And we refuse to be silent. 🙏🏾
@Binance Square Official @Yi He @Richard Teng @CZ @Binance Security @Franc1s