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   "text": "Because transacting parties judge transaction parameters and products on quality perceptions rather than on less rational and biased factors, quality becomes the true deciding factor in the marketplace, which eliminates prejudices.",
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   "text": "Binary upvote and downvote validation destroys roughly ninety seven percent of the available quality signal produced by validator assessments.",
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