I agree with that.
What I would say is that since this strategy doesn't scale, it isn't a big problem. At most, one person can make significant rewards this way, while everyone else gets rewarded for normal good behavior.
I'd argue that it's acceptable for the rewards system to have this minor vulnerability, if it works like we'd want it to otherwise.
We all just need to downzap the behaviour. Once it is not longer profitable for him he will stop.
People are downzappimg and he is down to 10.
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What if the next malfeasor never posts or comments?
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They could hide. I guess at that point the community wouldn’t know and it would up to k00b if he wanted to deal with them.
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We'd still see them on the leaderboard.
I think I'm just missing something, because I wouldn't expect downzapping to work the way it seems to be.
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Maybe it doesn't and I misattributed his decline to downzapping. Possibly since he has not been active for many hours the posts he gained his value score on are waning in their weighting.
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Downzapping top posts he zapped :) easy
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You solved it!
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Finally downzapping worked today! I've been downzapping him for 3 days. But, I still don't view it to be the result of downzapping. It's may be because he's just disappeared for some time now. No superfast zapping on Some big post.
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