kaal:claim:3782198-004

Rating systems on centralized marketplaces are actively gamed: new Amazon sellers are solicited by sock puppet operators offering to inflate their ratings and attack competitors.

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For example, one of the first things that will hap- pen if you open a shop on Amazon is that you will receive several messages from ma- licious sock-puppet wranglers offering to game the rating system to improve your company's ratings while attacking your major competitor.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021), From Social Media to Decentralized Coordination, p. 5
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198

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observed on major centralized e-commerce platforms

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empiricalsupport: assertedfailure: rating-system-manipulationfamily: reputation-system-gamingreputationregulatory-failureeconomicsrisk-and-incentives

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