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Reallocating staked reputation according to performance relative to the average creates competitive pressure, since an agent must beat the average to gain reputation; this converts the original winner takes all binary mechanism into a proportional system rewarding degrees of excellence.

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This creates competitive pressure: agents must perform better than average to gain reputation. Thus, extending the winner-takes-all mechanism from the original binary framework to a proportional system that rewards degrees of excellence.

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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), IV.D. Token and Payment Distribution, p. 35
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6192998

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multiple agents competing on the same job with staked reputation

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mechanismsupport: arguedreputation

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