I think in the majority of cases you’re right, it’s not a problem. But in any case where a single person’s identification can change the community ID (I think most commonly this would be when there are only two identifications at the finest ID level), anyone can completely erase the votes without any notification to anybody else. Based on the observations I regularly review, that sort of situation comes up much more frequently than you might think.
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