To stop REF game playing, why not let everyone take part?

I think a problem with trying to force institutions to submit everyone is that they can still play games by changing people's job descriptions to avoid having to submit, with likely negative outcome for staff involved. Perhaps one way is to combine making them submit everyone with having some small funding attached to any research submitted even 1*. You can still have a very steep funding curve towards 4* but at least there is a financial downside to playing games to exclude someone.

Let us pray for the day when those Vice Chancellors and Heads of School who steamrollered the REF in all of its corrupt, mendacious and time wasting banality will be regarded as the moral equivalents of Hitler's "willing executioners" or the government of M. Petain: spineless, self serving and complicit in the destruction of UK Higher Education and the triumph of short term material values. To pretend that this charade is either "objective" or worthwhile is a national disgrace.