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RE: How to Stop Down Vote Abuse - Upvoting Downvotes
Upvoting just for the original thought and the entertaining article.
I truly doubt it would have an effect, though. Have you seen the jerks lately advertising to upvote/downvote anything you want with their 800 (their claim, not my exaggerating) accounts?
Thank you for your vote, greatly appreciated!
I'm sure the upvoting/downvoting markets are just getting started and we will see it heavily commercialized in short order - this is probably why @dan has been ruminating on the voting process recently.
If someone controls 800 accounts it is akin to having an army! The scheme suggested in this article will deal with individual and small groups of trolls quite nicely, but a mercenary army is another beast altogether. I wonder how they maintain the SP of those accounts? Without constant addition of SP, either through curation or outright purchase, the influence of those 800 accounts will diminish fairly rapidly. It's expensive to feed an army!