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   "text": "If tokens minted for each post carry equal weight, then uncontroversial comments are not rewarded at all, because a universally upvoted improvement leaves no contrarian reputation staked and lost for the poster to win.",
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   "text": "Under equal token weighting a successful poster receives no greater reward than the upvoters who merely read and vote, so the system pays the same for crafting a comment as for voting on it, which encourages voting over commenting.",
   "abstract": "Similarly, successful comments (assuming very low DoS fees) give their posters no greater reward than their fellow upvoters receive. So the same reward is given for crafting a comment as is given for reading and voting, which encourages voting over commenting.",
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   "text": "The final 2021 Casper testnet used perceived validator node uptime as its single rewarding requirement.",
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