# kaal:claim:3782210-035

**Claim.** Reputation-based governance faces a chicken and egg problem: voting becomes more efficient once reputation is valuable, but reputation cannot become valuable without meaningful voting.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- bootstrapping a reputation system on existing infrastructure

**Source quote.**

> This is another chicken and egg problem. Voting will be more efficient with valu- able reputation. Reputation can't be valuable without meaningful voting.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Criticisms, page 14

**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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**Failure mode.** Reputation voting bootstrap deadlock  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** governance-design, economics, reputation

**Keywords.** bootstrapping, voting-efficiency, reputation-value, chicken-and-egg

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