They could yeah, but what you can do is sever the tree when a bad actor is discovered.

The idea of the participant tree is to make the cost of sybil attacks higher than the cost of defending against them.

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The Wikipedia isn’t a bad read on the topic if you aren’t familiar. It definitely has some interesting properties that might be good for the health of a community-driven project IMO

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting