# kaal:claim:3125822-047

**Claim.** Under the proposed weighting scheme a post that was initially downvoted can never yield its creator tokens even if expert opinion later reverses, an asymmetry the authors flag as a limitation of the core design.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- applies to the weighted directed acyclic graph valuation scheme
- could be changed only by allowing negative valued tokens

**Source quote.**

> Unfortunately a post p) which was initially downvoted can never give its creator tokens, even if opinion eventually reverses.

**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 42

**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.** irreversible initial downvote  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** irreversible-downvote, weighted-dag, precedent, design-flaw

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