There is no freedom when it comes to cheating. There definitely needs to be authority for dirty activities. That is how the world works. Else it would become chaos or anarchy.
Most of us might sometimes break the rules or laws a little bit e.g. overspeeding with car or taking 50 bucks and not reporting it to a tax authorities. Normally those things not cause too much harm and they are statistically insignificant.
Even on the forum I still see some people who voted with their project account and personal account there and they were not removed but we know itâs the same person behind. However statistically that didnât make huge difference so probably was let be or not noticed.
Then there are people who go a way too far. If someone brings 100kg of drugs to other country, he will be locked for long time of face death penalty in some countries. If they see he has been doing something for longer time then they will make him even more as an example for others and punish them real hard just to make it clear for other people that this is not something that would be taken lightly.
This case is no different. You have been manipulating the system for a long time now and crossed all the lines. Doesnât make a difference how you do it, whether itâs a list of accounts that you have in your excel sheet or click farm that you hired from some other country or got 100 people to open account from your local village and give you the credentials, itâs still cheating and making it not fair for all other competitors in the hackathon.
If they would not put a stop now to this activity then next season more projects would start playing same way and then it would just become a contest who figures out how to cheat better and manipulate the system. Then is should called different way too and we can push 20k votes in.
You donât need to have high IQ to actually see it just by even looking at the votes. They come always in batches to same projects that you want to give them. Would be pretty crazy coincidence that all these individuals always like exact same thing and vote for same projects and even in a row.
Then when you take into the count the stuff that some of us know when some projects were even contacted and promised votes and then you look that your guys sent 20 votes there on last minutes before hackathon ends and makes that project to win, that takes the last chance out of that it would be any coincidence.
And TronDAO has this time done bigger analysis to all these actions by looking at the patters etc from previous seasons as well.
Data normally doesnât lie and if they have the data that just confirms what we have already seen for some seasons then I am at least myself grateful that we might see more fair hackathon seasons coming forward.
Thanks again TronDAO to making this contest more fair.