# kaal:claim:3266953-009

**Claim.** Users on internet based platforms earn their reputation but do not own it, so if a platform deletes an account, years of reputation data disappear and users have near zero ability to reclaim it.

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

**Holds when.**

- centralized platforms such as Facebook

**Source quote.**

> Users earned their reputation but do NOT own reputation - e.g. if Facebook and other internet-based platform businesses accidentally deleted user account, years of data would be removed and users have near zero ability to reclaim the data

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Internet-Based Platforms Use of Reputation Metrics, page 9

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

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**Failure mode.** unowned reputation  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation, ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** reputation-ownership, data-autonomy, platform-business, user-rights

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