On 10.08.2011 12:45, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Think on the lines of "there are lots of people who vote for a politician you consider a jackass, but he hardly ever wins an election anyway"
Then think how many complaints about a valid user you get when just one or two stray emails of his get misreported, compared to when that user gets his password compromised by a nigerian or has his PC infected by a virus.
This comparison apparently suggests that misreports ought to be handled and repaired, just like viruses or compromised passwords, however statistically negligible they might be. (It could even possible to devise methods to handle misreports so as to minimize the amount of time that the relevant abuse team has to spend on manual investigation.) Is that what you meant?