To be honest, many of them are very cunning. At one time, I saw Ratimov very actively encouraging newbies. I don't know how he found them in large numbers, but later most of these newbies either went to bounties or were banned and, as philipma1957 noted, received a negative tag for something.


And it's not the giver's fault. It is easy to observe, as newbies did. In what cases can merit be obtained? They started creating hundreds of new topics with the same content, slightly changing the essence. And they were hardly different people. This is how the farms developed, until Ratimov paid attention to this, and became less kind to newbies.

It is likely that many people have such a judgment that once you easily give motivation for development, you only encourage people to try less and cheat more.