kaal:claim:3808852-014

eBay's user rating system is visibly flawed and illustrates the need for a decentralized reputation verification system, yet no entity or individual has produced a better technology, and those decentralized ratings remained eBay's biggest competitive advantage.

Source quote, verbatim

While the user ratings eBay uses clearly have flaws (that illustrate the need for a decentralized reputation verification system), so far, no entity or individual has been able to come up with a better technology.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021), III. Organizational Decentralization, p. 11
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852 · source PDF

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Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: absent decentralized reputation verificationfamily: reputation-system-gamingreputation

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