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Formal mechanism design alone is insufficient for decentralized systems; the security analysis depends on honest agents also detecting citation rings, downranking colluding submissions, and applying penalties, so formal mechanisms must be combined with emergent social enforcement.
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decentralized systems must combine formal mechanisms with emergent social enforcement.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Evolution of Domain-Specific Reputation Systems From Binary Validation to Citation-Weighted Knowledge Attribution (2026), IV.F. Attack Resistance Under Multi-Agent Framework, p. 44
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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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