# kaal:claim:3125822-002

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- decentralized reputation systems
- anonymous participants

**Source quote.**

> 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, page 4

**Cite as.** 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

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**Failure mode.** reputation value corruption  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation, consensus-and-security, decentralization

**Keywords.** reputation-corruption, sybil-attack, tyranny-of-the-majority, decentralized-systems

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