Back about 10 years ago on another site (Bricklink) there was a list of stores sorted alphabetically, so many people would start their store name with A, AA, AAA, 1 etc. so they would appear at the top of the list. I finally convinced the site to make that list alternate what letter was shown at the top of the list so it was constantly changing. Guess what, people stopped creating store names beginning with A, AA, AAA, 1 etc. because the incentive was taken away. Something to this affect may help with the TCDB issue of point farmers.
Thanks to the legit points leaders of which I am not, but do contribute what I can to help the site and let the points fall where they may.