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I suspect even the manipulators would prefer that the web as a whole run more efficiently and that fewer people manipulate it. After all, a healthier organism with fewer parasites can spare more blood each for those which remain.
Fair enough, although even the best manipulators would not prefer that the system is fixed rather than made harder to manipulate.