# kaal:claim:3125822-014

**Claim.** Reddit's upvote system imposes insignificant punishment for voting randomly, and this lack of cost compromises the informational value of an upvote, which is the failure mode a staked validation pool is designed to avoid.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- applies to unstaked voting systems

**Source quote.**

> As a second example, Reddit's upvote system currently has insignificant punishment for voting randomly, which compromises the value of the meaning of an upvote

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, *Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A* (2018), 4.1.2 Tyranny of the majority and tragedy of the commons problems, page 13

**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

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `d4d0bbaa3260968226186131d60e6d64a53e904d94e4295c61fd17042f1191ef` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20et%20al.%20-%202018%20-%20Blockchain%20Infrastructure%20for%20Measuring%20Domain%20Specific%20Reputation%20in%20Autonomous%20Decentralized%20and%20A.pdf

**Failure mode.** costless voting  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** governance-design, risk-and-incentives, reputation

**Keywords.** voting-incentives, reddit, nothing-at-stake, reputation-signal

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-034

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