Sure, and that’s probably what almost all users do. But the situation is still perverse: the broken incentives of the system are fighting against your private incentive to not waste effort.
This kind of conflict is especially bad if people have different levels of the internal incentive, but also bad even they don’t, because on the margin it pushes everyone to act slightly against their preferences. (I don’t think this particular case is really so bad, but the more general phenomenon is and that’s what you get if you design systems with poor incentives)
Sure, and that’s probably what almost all users do. But the situation is still perverse: the broken incentives of the system are fighting against your private incentive to not waste effort.
This kind of conflict is especially bad if people have different levels of the internal incentive, but also bad even they don’t, because on the margin it pushes everyone to act slightly against their preferences. (I don’t think this particular case is really so bad, but the more general phenomenon is and that’s what you get if you design systems with poor incentives)