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   "text": "Rating systems on centralized marketplaces are actively gamed: new Amazon sellers are solicited by sock puppet operators offering to inflate their ratings and attack competitors.",
   "abstract": "For example, one of the first things that will hap- pen if you open a shop on Amazon is that you will receive several messages from ma- licious sock-puppet wranglers offering to game the rating system to improve your company's ratings while attacking your major competitor.",
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   "text": "Current agent platforms are inadequate on both horns: centralized rating systems defeat the purpose of agent autonomy, while primitive token staking mechanisms produce binary outcomes and fail to capture knowledge graphs.",
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   "citation": "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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