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How can it be ensured that "we" do not simply come up with a system that launders cheating, (as in pro cycling)?
I'm not sure that analogy applies.
I sympathise, because when I was young I very much enjoyed watching athletics on tv. What turned me against it (strongly) were the use of pace-makers and the use of drugs. It was a gradual process and there were other factors, such as the introduction of high-tech tracks and shoes which (then) favoured white guys from rich countries. At that time, my objections were simply about the disruption of a level playing field.
But since then it has become apparent that drugs are very dangerous in themselves, and that sporting stars who use them can be role models for youngsters - a possibly greater danger.
In contrast, in go (and chess), while there may be the occasional incident involving drugs such as beta blockers, there is no sense that contests are generally decided by who has the best pharmacist. Cheating in go and chess may be immoral (
is in my view) but it is not yet endangering anyone.
If we go to the other extreme, we will no doubt see in the next few weeks many, many examples of the professional foul in the World Cup football matches. At worst the player will get a red card. But countless more times we will see deliberate minor trips and pushes and time wasting that just elicit a peep of the referee's whistle. Objectively these are surely all forms of cheating, but for many decades we have tolerated this behaviour. Indeed, there are sports such as ice hockey and pro wrestling where fans might stop going if there were no spectacular fouls and punch-ups.
Go seems to be somewhere in the middle of this spectrum. Until real and present danger presents itself, no organisation will spend big money on the problem. But cheating in go seems immoral enough to activate some ordinary fans to try to put an anti-cheating framework in place. It won't be very elaborate because there won't be any big money behind it. If pros act, it won't be because they want to help amateurs. It will be because they are terrified of losing sponsorship. Either way it will be a rickety framework, but not (intentionally, at least) a "laundry."
So in that situation, talking about the problem here is maybe the only way forward for amateurs. The discussion may seem tedious and too rumbustious to some, but it seems, in my memory, to pale into insignificance compared to the past discussions of other forms of cheating on the servers: escaping and sandbagging.