# kaal:claim:3125822-015

**Claim.** Tyranny of the majority is countered by a time delay in announcing upvote results, so that experts cannot see the majority position before they commit their own stake.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- requires that votes stay hidden until the pool closes

**Source quote.**

> The second mechanism that counters the tyranny of the majority is the time-delay in announcing the results of upvotes, so experts cannot plainly see the majority position before posting their stake.

**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

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** tyranny-of-the-majority, vote-hiding, time-delay, validation-pool

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5254152-014

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