# kaal:claim:3266953-038

**Claim.** In the weighted directed acyclic graph precedent system, more reputation weight and salary flow to forum posts that other posts continuously reference, and as a precedent dissipates over time new precedent emerges naturally to replace the older one.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- Semada Forum governance posts and citations

**Source quote.**

> more reputation weight and salaries are allocated to posts on the Semada Forum that get continuously referenced by other posts. As a precedent dissipates over time, new precedence in the Semada Forum emerge naturally to replace older precedent.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, *Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper* (2018), Evolutionary Blockchain Governance Protocol, page 25

**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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**Topics.** governance-design, law-and-legal-systems, institutional-design

**Keywords.** dag-governance, precedent-system, on-chain-governance, evolutionary-protocol

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