# Voting incentives

`kaal:entity:voting-incentives`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `voting-incentives`. 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, 2018 to 2018.

**2018**

- [3125822-014](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-014) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Reddit's upvote system imposes insignificant punishment for voting randomly, and this lack of cost compromises the informational value of an upvote, which is the failure mode a staked validation pool is designed to avoid.
  > As a second example, Reddit's upvote system currently has insignificant punishment for voting randomly, which compromises the value of the meaning of an upvote
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822
- [3125822-045](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3125822-045) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > 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.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vlad Andrei, Blockchain Infrastructure for Measuring Domain Specific Reputation in Autonomous Decentralized and A (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3125822

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