kaal:claim:3266953-031

The Web of Trust is only trustworthy where the service is not valuable, such as essentially free PGP email, because only then is it not worth creating sockpuppet accounts.

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So the only time WoT works is when the service is not valuable, such as PGP (email which is essentially free). Then it's not worth it to create sock puppet accounts, so in that case you can trust the WoT network.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018), Sockpuppet Protocol, p. 21
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953 · source PDF

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

Holds when

services with negligible economic value at stake

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conditionsupport: arguedfailure: web of trust breaks under economic valuefamily: reputation-system-gamingreputation

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