The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms.

Friedman*, E. J., & Resnick, P. (2001). The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 10(2), 173-199.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2001

Volume

10

Issue

2

Pages

173-199

DOI

10.1111/j.1430-9134.2001.00173.x

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1430-9134.2001.00173.x

Cited from

economics_finance

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Shadow Of The Future
  • The failure modes the prime names are live design concerns: low observability (anonymous or easily-discarded accounts let a cheater shed a bad reputation — "whitewashing"

    This sourceAnalyzes 'whitewashing' — discarding a bad reputation by creating a fresh identity — and the cost it imposes on reputation-based cooperation.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract confirms cheap, replaceable pseudonyms let users misbehave without reputational consequences, the mechanism behind 'whitewashing' — though the term itself is the article's gloss, not the abstract's wording.

    “We consider the problems of societal norms for cooperation and reputation when it is possible to obtain cheap pseudonyms, something that is becoming quite common in a wide variety of interactions on the Internet. This introduces opportunities to misbehave without paying reputational consequences.”

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Mechanisms

• Reputation or Track-Record Trace
  • A fresh identity wipes the trace clean

    This sourceShows that replaceable pseudonyms let an actor discard the reputational consequences attached to a prior identity.

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