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by joeykrug 4135 days ago
Sybil attacks are addressed due to the way reputation works. Reports are a weighted average - so the more reputation you have, the more your votes are weighted. You could make a billion separate accounts and send them each one reputation, but there's no discernible difference than if you had just reported with one account with one billion reputation.
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but you can't make more reputation out of thin air by creating new accounts/addresses, just as you can't create Bitcoin by making new addresses