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belochlast Saturday at 10:23 PM0 repliesview on HN

The majority of these submissions are not from anonymous trolls. They're from identifiable individuals who are trying to game metrics. The threat of boosting their number of plagiarism offences on public record would deter such individuals quite effectively.

Meanwhile, banning review articles written by humans would be harmful in many fields. I'm not in CPSC, but I'd hate to see this policy become the norm for all disciplines.