# kaal:claim:4067783-024

**Claim.** Anonymous decentralized networks can encourage troll behavior because participants feel safe attacking others without retribution, and in a DAO that trolling destabilizes the organization and creates friction between members and the DAO.

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

**Holds when.**

- anonymous participation without reputational stake

**Source quote.**

> In the DAO context, trolling behavior destabilizes the organization and causes friction between members and the DAO.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Fallacies* (2022), II.5 Myth #5: Anonymity leads to Bad Actors, page 10

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Fallacies (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4067783

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**Failure mode.** Anonymous trolling friction  (family: sybil-and-identity-attack)

**Topics.** institutional-design, dao

**Keywords.** anonymity, trolling, organizational-friction, dao

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