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by meheleventyone 1936 days ago
That doesn’t seem to be a very confidence inspiring answer to deal with fraud.
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It's a difficult issue to handle in decentralized systems, especially in a way that scales with growth in the network. Any mechanism that is not voluntary/optional but which requires some human judgment would necessarily introduce centralization and various attack vectors to undermine the system, such as people filing thousands of fake petitions as a kind of DDOS attack.