Quote from: TheFootMan on May 19, 2014, 10:42:46 AM

In reality scammers are kind of a good thing. Don't get me wrong, it's completely deplorable and I don't condone it, but it's a bit like the jungle. Imagine a monkey population, they live in the threes, but occasionally they go down on the ground to find certain plants, in some areas, or based or certain sounds and smells, a predator can be spotted.

Some small apes are killed or eaten in the process, but the other wisen up and stay away from the predators, and learn how to protect themselves and not to take too big risks.

Or it could be like being a small fish, you hide under a stone, and you want to swim to a stone that looks attractive not too far away, and in the corner of your eye, you see a big fish - but you assume it won't harm you, so you take the chance and swim. You get eaten. Your brothers wait till they can't see any large fish, and swim safely over to the other big stone.

Live and learn.

It gets a bit more complicated when the "dangerous factor" and "the factor training/warning you" is the same thing ;-)
But yes, it has some resemblance to evolution. And the community already did react, evolve, with escrows and audits and full disclosures for example.

Ente