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Citation-weighted payment mechanisms as currently formulated will systematically erode the quality of knowledge attribution in any decentralized reputation system if the incentive misalignment is left unaddressed.

This paper demonstrates, however, that citation-weighted payment mechanisms as currently formulated contain a fundamental incentive misalignment that, if left unaddressed, will systematically erode the quality of knowledge attribution in any decentralized reputation system.

Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), I. Introduction, p. 4
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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

• the incentive misalignment remains unaddressed

predictivesupport: arguedfailure: systematic attribution erosionfamily: reputation-system-gamingcitation-and-knowledgeai-and-agentsrisk-and-incentivesdecentralization

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