Distributing salary equitably, for example equally to all members, is self-defeating: the obvious gaming strategy becomes creating multiple accounts and distributing one's work between them, which is why the salary must be reputation-weighted.
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If salary is distributed more equitably, say equally to all members, then the obvious strategy for gaming the system is to create multiple accounts and distribute your work between the accounts.
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021), Inductive argument for reputation architecture, p. 6 https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210 · source PDF
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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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open membership systems where accounts are cheap to create
restateskaal:claim:3782203-036 Paying contributors in reputation tokens rather than fees, and then distributing all fees as a periodic reputa...
extended_bykaal:claim:3799320-039 Reputation weighted salary distribution solves the sockpuppet attack, because a member who creates ten account...
extendskaal:claim:3266953-028 A Web of Trust reputation system can be gamed with sockpuppet accounts, because an attacker can behave well fo...
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