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by orangea 1042 days ago
If your site becomes a spectacle/popular/viral, which I don't think it will, people will submit false data. I don't see how you can possibly deal with that.
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That's what they said about wikipedia and here it stands 20 years later, stronger than ever. Trolls will always exist but there are ways to keep them at bay, we're working on it.
True, only a single determined person with a botnet it more than enough to wreck it completely.
Our metrics are low enough at the moment that we would notice anyone trying to add thousands or even millions or records. But I hear you.