that's a silly arbitrary rule. a simple rule that fixes this is to weight influencers far less than they are now, but there is no incentive for the good folks at primal to do that

GM is important culture. its helping us test the network in a fun way. its like a ping. Odells network appears to be working amazingly well, and so do my GMs.. its more fun than "test" although those also get a decent response ratio too 😁

A Trending within your network is probably best, but this becomes moot when you're brand new and do not have a network graph yet.