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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.",
   "abstract": "If the tokens that are minted for each post have equal weight, then comments which are not controversial are not rewarded.",
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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 proposed fix is to value tokens by how the post was received and cited: tokens minted at a node with a large branch of positive references are worth more, while tokens from a post whose betting pool was close to 50-50 are worth less in future salaries than tokens from a post with uniform agreement.",
   "abstract": "For instance if there is a large branch of positive references based at a node, the tokens minted at that node should be worth more. If the post was contentious, and its betting pool was close to 50-50, the tokens will be worth less in future salaries than uniform agreement.",
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   "text": "Under the proposed weighting scheme a post that was initially downvoted can never yield its creator tokens even if expert opinion later reverses, an asymmetry the authors flag as a limitation of the core design.",
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