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by domador 3710 days ago
Reward systems of any kind need to be very, very carefully designed, otherwise they are vulnerable to perverse incentives. Unfortunately, there can't be a single chink in the armor.
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Companies that have complex ecosystems like this ought to start giving more though to mechanism design[1]. I would bet there are academics out there who would have a field day optimizing this sort of system.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design