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   "text": "Reputation scores clear the market on both sides: a low requester score makes workers less likely to accept that requester's offers, and a low worker score reduces the worker's likelihood of retention.",
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   "text": "Because requesters select workers by reputation score, workers acquire an incentive to keep their scores high by performing tasks with high accuracy and efficiency.",
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   "text": "The reputation score mechanism serves a discriminating function, separating malicious actors from simple mistakes and protecting workers and verifiers against fraudulent requesters and badly designed requests.",
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   "text": "A voting associate's SDAO reputation score is determined by that associate's merit, level of activity, and engagement in the SDAO.",
   "abstract": "The respective SDAO reputation score of each VA, in turn, is determined by their respective merit, level of activity, and engagement in the SDAO.",
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   "text": "Workable DAO governance should account for reputation with non-fungible tokens or weighted keys rather than fungible tokens, so that voting weight tracks reputation instead of purchasing power.",
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   "text": "Because reputation merit scores are calculated in an immutable and attack resistant manner, they can be aggregated across the many communities an individual belongs to, producing a constantly evolving WEB3 identity score comparable to a credit score.",
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