kaal:claim:3125822-002

Reputation value in any decentralized reputational system can be corrupted through three channels: direct purchase of reputation, automated worthless work, and degeneration of the system into a majority of inexpert opinions.

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In any such decentralized reputational system there is always the potential to corrupt the value of reputation by purchasing it directly, or through automated worthless work, or through the degeneration of a majority of inexpert opinions.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018), 1 Motivation, p. 4
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

Holds when

decentralized reputation systems
anonymous participants

Classification

failuresupport: assertedfailure: reputation value corruptionfamily: reputation-system-gamingreputationconsensus-and-securitydecentralization

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