# kaal:claim:3782214-039

**Claim.** Because major social media platforms are privately and centrally owned, their governance processes and reputation distribution algorithms are necessarily opaque, since their users' incentives are not aligned to police reputation against gaming.

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

**Holds when.**

- privately owned centralized platforms
- users hold no financial stake in the system

**Source quote.**

> Since Stack Overflow and Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and all the other successful social media sites are privately, centrally owned, their governance processes—their algorithms for distributing reputation—are necessarily opaque.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralized Governance* (2021), Summary, page 34

**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.** forced opacity of centralized reputation  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** reputation, decentralization, disclosure, regulatory-failure

**Keywords.** reputation, centralized-platforms, transparency, gaming

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-006

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