# kaal:claim:3125822-045

**Claim.** 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.

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

**Holds when.**

- assumes very low denial of service fees for posting

**Source quote.**

> 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, page 40

**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.** voting crowds out commenting  (family: staking-and-incentive-misalignment)

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

**Keywords.** reward-design, voting-incentives, content-creation, weighted-dag

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