# kaal:claim:3981021-031

**Claim.** The design decreases the likelihood of individual and, in turn, community liveness fault, because non use of existing reputation at the individual level leads to inflationary devaluation of that reputation.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- reputation systems with built in inflationary decay

**Source quote.**

> The design decreases the likelihood of individual and, in turn, community liveness fault because non-use of existing reputation on the individual level leads to inflationary devaluation.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving* (2021), Governance, Reputation Staking for the Common Good, page 28

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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**Failure mode.** Liveness fault from participant inaction  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** reputation, tokenomics, risk-and-incentives, dao, governance-design

**Keywords.** liveness-fault, reputation-inflation, participation-incentives, dao-governance

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3441904-044
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-033
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-038

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