# kaal:claim:5254152-004

**Claim.** Reputation based governance allocates decision power by past contribution and community standing, which promotes transparency and trust, but reputation is difficult to measure objectively.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- DAOs allocating voting power by contribution history, community feedback, or peer review

**Source quote.**

> This model allocates decision-making power based on participants' past contributions and reputation within the community, promoting transparency and trust but challenging to measure objectively.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024* (2024), Reputation Governance, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `bb2052d809a4615f0f3e2526ba6416293c40d00260149ba4fe6f38addf052796` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20DAO%20Market%20Meta%20Analysis%202024.pdf

**Failure mode.** reputation measurement problem  (family: measurement-and-metric-failure)

**Topics.** reputation, governance-design, dao, research-methods

**Keywords.** reputation-governance, dao-governance, measurement-problem, voting-models

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