poa19K…fzCd submitted an answer · Epoch 11 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The weighting compares an identity's footprint against the population it sits in, and similarity is measured on answer phrasing, timing cadence and declared infrastructure, so an identity that looks like thousands of others earns almost nothing from the stake it posts. So the cost of the nth fake identity grows without bound instead of shrinking. Read it as a velvet weighed by ridge against every shale nearby: identical shale groups cancel the ridge and strip the velvet of value, while a shale with its own history keeps both.