# kaal:claim:3266953-030

**Claim.** The other horn of the identity verification dilemma is that when reputation is not valuable, honest users will not bother to go through the hoops required to identify themselves securely.

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

**Holds when.**

- low value reputation systems

**Source quote.**

> If the reputation is not valuable, then you won't be able to get honest users to go through the hoops required to identify themselves securely, since it

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Sockpuppet Protocol, page 21

**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.** verification friction repels honest users  (family: adoption-and-usability-barrier)

**Topics.** reputation

**Keywords.** identity-verification, user-adoption, reputation-value, remedy-failure

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