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Then you would be flooded with a deluge of low quality proposals. This kind of thing only works with people because it's not trivial to instantly create a large
by caskance 11y ago
Then you would be flooded with a deluge of low quality proposals. This kind of thing only works with people because it's not trivial to instantly create a large number of new ones simply to game the system.
- imgabe 11y agoIt would involve a screening process to ensure that a real person wrote a coherent proposal before adding it to the selection pool.
- caskance 11y agoObviously there will be some kind of filter and spammers will adjust their techniques to slip through the filter since you've now given them incentive to do so. This is hardly a new phenomenon.
- imgabe 11y agoSpam filters are pretty effective these days, I don't think this is an insurmountable problem. Maybe something like sending a verification email with a link to a captcha. Not too much of a nuisance to do for one application, but unsustainable for submitting a million applications. Edit: Alternately, an even lazier idea: Randomly award the grant from the pool of applicants rejected by other institutions.