kaal:claim:3125822-045

Under equal token weighting a successful poster receives no greater reward than the upvoters who merely read and vote, so the system pays the same for crafting a comment as for voting on it, which encourages voting over commenting.

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Similarly, successful comments (assuming very low DoS fees) give their posters no greater reward than their fellow upvoters receive. So the same reward is given for crafting a comment as is given for reading and voting, which encourages voting over commenting.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018), 9.2 The forum as a weighted DAG, p. 40
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

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assumes very low denial of service fees for posting

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