[DJBunnies]

That’s not the point.

Point is: when @lt100, @lt101, … , @lt999 all vouch for something, it’s worthless.

[jen20]

But surely then a maintainer notices what has happened, and resolves the problem?

[OkayPhysicist]

That's really easy to clean up, if you maintain the tree of trust. If a parent node gets whacked, all the child nodes do, too.

[Dylan16807]

Real world identity isn't sufficient or necessary to solve that problem.