kaal:claim:3125822-039

The authors state plainly that in an open, decentralized and anonymous environment they provide no mechanism to stop the formation of sham expertise tags that copy a successful tag's record under a new name.

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In the open, decentralized, anonymous environment of the platoform, we provide no mechanism to stop the formation of such sham expertise tags.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018), 8.1 Sham expertise tags, p. 38
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

open anonymous environment
expertise tags are cheap to create

Classification

failuresupport: assertedfailure: sham expertise tagsfamily: reputation-system-gamingreputation

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