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xandriustoday at 2:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

Easily exploitable without much stretch of a thought.

I'd say closing a program which doesn't work anymore is a better idea.


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Lalabadietoday at 2:22 PM

How so? These bot systems work on volume – there's no regard for how much reviewer time they gobble up. The idea is to make producing reports basically free, so getting 1 in 1000 positives is still a success if you have no regard for externalities.

If they have to pay for reviewer time for each of 1000 reports, then the scheme stops being viable.

MostlyStabletoday at 2:19 PM

The majority of the exploits I can think of are fixed by setting the correct price. Other suggestions in this thread of denominating in bitcoin fix the other exploitation: chargebacks.

If you can think of something that isn't solved by one of those two mechanisms, I'd be interested in hearing them enumerated.