The more I thought about this topic the more I think Hwbot shouldn't do anything, because the situation right now might be far from being perfect or let use the word "fair", but from a realistic point of view there's no way to change this without causing a lot of trouble and creating new unfairness.
- Why enforce something because of a matter you can't prove (with the possibilities of Hwbot)? Do we really want a community where stalker have to check the Facebook page, twitter messages, forum posts and so on to prove somebody gets "too much stuff" for staying in the Overclockers league?
- Why does it matter if you pay for your 100 CPUs or not as long as you're able to use them and pick the cherries? If you don't have to pay it's for sure an advantage. But if you are able to buy them you have exactly the same advantage plus you can basically afford everything else you need to climb up the ranking and are not dependent from any vendor/shop at all. Welcome back to another "money rules OC-world"-discussion ...
[irony warning]If you still think "Whoa, witch-hunting in this matter is so much needed!" then where do you want to draw the line? Has somebody to join pro league if he gets ten CPUs donated (e.g. from a relative)? Are 10 pieces fine and 20 are too much? Do people have to send their invoices to Hwbot every week or is one time per month enough? Of course not - it should be mandatory to upload a dozen invoices for every component you used when you upload a result, right? But don't forget: There are loopholes! You can photoshop every invoice you send in. So we need a validation process for sure. Oh, and what do we do with the shop owners that submit results? Maybe your daddy owns a PC shop. Can we trust these invoices? Maybe it's a fake invoice from the very beginning - does the shop even exist and sell the listed items?
Dont worry, I know what you're thinking: Invoices are not reliable and maybe the wrong way to begin with. Hwbot users should send their monthly paycheck instead! Unemployed and a golden sample out of the blue is somehow fishy, don't you agree? Time to call the tax office to get this sorted! Hwbot can create a social league for poor people who souldn't overclock at all, right? Do people have to report back to Hwbot if they inherit some money? ... when you inherit CPUs? Maybe your grandma had a golden one in her money sock - that would be killer hardware you didn't pay for, right? (Cool signature line and meme template: "Grandma made me pro!") Can Hwbot afford to hire a nitpicker to check this? Maybe we're lucky an someone stops overclocking to watch all these exciting invoices and paychecks in his freetime. Shouldn't he visit Hwbot users from time to time at home - unannounced of course - and search the closets for hidden, dirty and unpaid CPUs? Maybe we can smuggle the same guy into the CPU mafia to prepare a great bust after he brought us global peace at the weekend, too.[/irony warning]