# kaal:claim:3782210-012

**Claim.** The proper solution to reputation security is to give members themselves the power to police their own reputation, because the leading experts in a field are best equipped to invent the regulations for policing their own industry and are best incentivized to defend their own reputation and future profits.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- decentralized networks of domain experts

**Source quote.**

> The proper solution is to give your members more power over their reputation. Give the members themselves the power to police their own reputation.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Web of Trust, page 4

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210

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**Topics.** reputation, decentralization

**Keywords.** self-policing, expert-regulation, reputation-design, decentralization

**Related claims.**

- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-025

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