I don't think "ritual punishment" is a fair way to describe what's happening to the cheaters who did not expect to get caught but now are. As described in the a

I don't think "ritual punishment" is a fair way to describe what's happening to the cheaters who did not expect to get caught but now are. As described in the article, few people face actual punishment even after being called out for egregious cheating by these services. People who cheat at the scale required to fake a doctors thesis or fabricate data are extremely damaging to society.