kaal:claim:3411897-007

eBay's user rating system, despite being its biggest competitive advantage, is clearly flawed, and the persistence of those flaws demonstrates the unmet need for a decentralized reputation verification system, since no better technology has yet been produced.

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While the user ratings eBay uses clearly have flaws (that illustrate the need for a decentralized reputation verification system – discussed in Chapter 6), so far, nobody has been able to come up with a better technology.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019), Part I: The Past, Types of Decentralization, p. 10
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897 · source PDF

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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

Holds when

applies to centralized platform reputation systems as of 2019

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: centralized-reputation-rating-flawsfamily: reputation-system-gamingreputation

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