# kaal:claim:3782214-025

**Claim.** No centralized platform such as Amazon or eBay has been able to create meaningful and secure online reputation, because central ownership and control prevent them from giving members the power and incentives needed to police their own reputation.

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

**Holds when.**

- centrally owned and controlled platforms

**Source quote.**

> No centralized platform, such as Amazon or eBay, has been able to create mean- ingful and secure online reputation. Because they are centrally owned and controlled they cannot give members the power and incentives they need to police their own reputation,

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Reputation counters instability from profit motive, page 11

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Decentralized%20Governance.pdf

**Failure mode.** centralized reputation failure  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation, decentralization

**Keywords.** reputation, centralized-platforms, self-policing, folk-theorems

**Related claims.**

- supports: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-012

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