# kaal:claim:6269518-003

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the incentive misalignment remains unaddressed

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), I. Introduction, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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**Failure mode.** systematic attribution erosion  (family: reputation-system-gaming)

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, ai-and-agents, risk-and-incentives, decentralization

**Keywords.** under-citation, knowledge-attribution, incentive-misalignment, decentralized-systems

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