scams require the existence of victims.
No. An attempted scam with 0 victims is still a scam.
a scam implies a fraud or swindle, which requires a victim. that is, you can't defraud "nobody."
if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around and all that.
and you removed the relevant part of the quote:
if you think they don't want alts spamming in their campaigns (or the managers aren't enrolling their own alts), you are incredibly naive. they mutually benefit from these alt farms and you know it. the idea that bounties are getting "scammed" is absurd.
Whether you like bounty campaigns or not is irrelevant.
what are you talking about? my comments were about the DT system becoming increasingly useless because of all the recent emphasis on tagging people for harmless and petty shit.
and it's not just bounties either; that's just the most obvious example. like the digaran example above. it's normal now to see tags for "saying something untrustworthy once" (even in jest) or "lying" (as if the tagger could prove intent) or generic "untrustworthy" behavior. retaliatory tags. etc.
it's just rare these days to see people tagged for a bona fide scam. it's always stupid petty bullshit.