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   "text": "Once participants are vested through reputation, they police the system themselves, which raises security, which in turn attracts more public fees and closes the loop.",
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   "text": "Self policing is more effective when the members themselves hold the power, because a centralized hierarchy in which each member holds distinct powers and responsibilities is more prone to structural corruption.",
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   "text": "The proper solution to reputation security is to give members themselves the power to police their own reputation, because the leading experts in a field are best equipped to invent the regulations for policing their own industry and are best incentivized to defend their own reputation and future profits.",
   "abstract": "The proper solution is to give your members more power over their reputation. Give the members themselves the power to police their own reputation.",
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   "text": "Reputation must be staked and risked on votes over work evidence, because otherwise the system suffers the Tragedy of the Commons nothing-at-stake problem; staking ensures every expert is motivated to police every reputation-staked action in order to protect the value of their own investment.",
   "abstract": "To avoid the Tragedy of the Commons (the nothing-at- stake problem, \"skin in the game\"), reputation must be staked and risked with votes on work evidence. This ensures all experts are motivated to police every reputation- staked action, to protect the value of their investment.",
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   "text": "A reputational system formally linked to profits makes members forward thinking and cooperative, counteracting the tendency of competition to separate them, and it also motivates members to self police their own past investments.",
   "abstract": "A reputational system that is formally linked to profits makes the members for- ward-thinking and cooperative, to combat the natural tendency of competition to sep- arate members. It also motivates members to self-police their past investments.",
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   "text": "No centralized platform such as Amazon or eBay has been able to create meaningful and secure online reputation, because central ownership and control prevent them from giving members the power and incentives needed to police their own reputation.",
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   "text": "The REP token system deliberately replaces vague, appointment-based categories of registered legal expert and stakeholder used in other proposals with a transparent, incentive-compatible, self-policing credentialing system.",
   "abstract": "This design deliberately replaces the vague, appointment-based \"registered legal expert\" and \"stakeholder\" categories contemplated in other solutions with a fully transparent, incentive-compatible, and self-policing credentialing system.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, The UDLC DAO Operationalizing a Continuously Evolving Universal Digital Law Codex Through Weighted (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5887242",
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