Is it possible that there's some amount of semi-malicious intent there? People who are farming dupes or using bots, because I know there are incentives for participation in the IC. Any incentive tends to be weaponized in some way, shape or form. Have you seen evidence of this?
TL;DRNo evidence of dupe farming or bots has been seen, only brigading of specific issues, but he agreed to look into whether the Issue Council is being manipulated.
No, not so far. Not so far as to say, oh yeah, there's this going on. The worst things that we've seen so far in IC would be things like brigading a specific issue. And that's also why we've been kind of careful with rewards for the Issue Council. It's not because we don't want to reward players that are doing stuff there, like we are doing some of them, but we're always trying to stay asynchronous so that you can't go, oh, they're going to reward for this, so I'm going to go and create reports, or I'm going to create dupes, or I'm going to create whatever.
Obviously, you're the person who would know, and it's not that I don't believe you. What I've seen and what I'm reading in chat right now... Would you commit to maybe taking a look at that and seeing if maybe it is being manipulated?
Absolutely. Yeah, I can absolutely look at it. Especially if there's a sense that that's happening.