# User ratings

`kaal:entity:user-ratings`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `user-ratings`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3808852-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808852-013) [mechanism/argued] -- Hybrid organizations combining centralized structure and profit optimization with bottom-up decentralization in the form of customer reviews generate significant success but also create tensions, because users who trust each other through ratings still demand consumer safeguards that require command-and-control structures.
  > While people are willing to trust others by way of user ratings, they also require safeguards for consumers that typically require command-and-control centralized structures.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852
- [3808852-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808852-014) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- eBay's user rating system is visibly flawed and illustrates the need for a decentralized reputation verification system, yet no entity or individual has produced a better technology, and those decentralized ratings remained eBay's biggest competitive advantage.
  > While the user ratings eBay uses clearly have flaws (that illustrate the need for a decentralized reputation verification system), so far, no entity or individual has been able to come up with a better technology.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

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