# kaal:claim:5554218-037

**Claim.** A reputation system in which participants who act in good faith earn reputation credits and those acting opportunistically face penalties mitigates the take the money and run mentality that anonymity otherwise fosters.

**Type.** design  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- anonymous or pseudonymous participants in decentralized systems

**Source quote.**

> For example, participants who act in good faith earn reputation credits, while those engaging in opportunistic actions face penalties, mitigating the "take the money and run" mentality fostered by anonymity.

**From.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, *Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era* (2025), 6.5 Overcoming Limitations of the Code is Law Paradigm, page 36

**Cite as.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) Building the Legal Infrastructure for the Digital Era (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5554218

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**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, reputation

**Keywords.** udlc, reputation-systems, accountability, anonymity, ethics

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