# kaal:claim:3125822-042

**Claim.** Reputation on the platform is not truly non transferable: accumulated sem tokens can be sold along with the anonymous identities that hold them, and the only check on this is the continued existence of a good faith majority that votes fairly in validation pools.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- anonymous accounts can be transferred wholesale
- check depends on 51 percent of users acting in good faith

**Source quote.**

> The inevitable accumulation of sem tokens by anonymous users is another potential source of corruption. Reputational power can be sold via the sale of anonymous identities. Such corruption is checked by the existence of 51% good-faith users, who will vote fairly in the validation pools.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, *Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A* (2018), 8.2 Accumulation of reputational power, page 38

**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.** identity sale transfers reputation  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation

**Keywords.** identity-sale, non-transferability, reputation-accumulation, collusion

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