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by danparsonson 27 days ago
That's life I'm afraid - no system that rewards participation can be entirely free of people taking advantage of it somehow. It's an unavoidable cost that we pay to get the benefits. The best we can usually do is to incentivize good behaviour sufficiently that the percentage of bad actors is very low, using rewards and/or punishments as appropriate.
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Google could obliterate these scammers.
Google also could eliminate hunger for hundreds of millions of people, reduce spam email from their infra by 95%, and many other nice things.

Don't hold your breath.

Aren’t they the biggest scammers on earth, though?
A scammer recognizes another scammer from Afar