How can Proof of Brain get rid of cheaters in the community?

You can't get rid of cheaters in the community. You can, however, minimize the attempts. No one person will do it alone. It takes a majority of the community to play a role in mitigating the problem.

I've downvoted a lot of articles because of various forms of justifiable fraud. It takes a lot of work to verify it's fraud, report it to the community, remove the rewards, and notify the user. Sometimes, it is all I do in a day. Now and again, I'll do it so much in a day that I'll burn through my VP in one sitting. And I'm just one person doing it.

Downvotes alone won't get rid of the cheaters. Community action will reduce it to as low as possible and you won't even have to DV to do it. Downvotes provide a small group of people an ability to reach a larger audience. However, if no one wants to use it, then it's a pointless tool.

Do you want to know what could get rid of the cheaters?

• Community members screening posts for potential fraud.
• They communicate concerns to the community or its most outspoken members
• Notify the user of suspected fraud.
• Validate suspected fraud or get consensus on it.
• Don't vote on the user's article.

You don't need to pass community rules or guidelines. You just need to act.

I have DV'd people in the past and I was WRONG. Being professional, going through your steps to validate fraud, and being accountable for a mistake moves mountains. The people I DV'd erroneously never uttered a negative word at me. Because I engaged with them and then we moved on.

I have also DV'd people in the past and I wasn't wrong. Sometimes they wouldn't respond back and continued to make their money. Sometimes, the people admitted the error and never did it again.

We have to work as a team to solve our own problems.