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by VukT 1916 days ago
Here's a quote from a Forbes article: "With a review system like that of CryptoTask, reviewers are token holders that stake an amount equal to the task value that they are putting themselves forward for as a potential reviewer. It means that being a stakeholder, you already have a chance of being selected. That chance is directly proportional to that individual's stake, so this prevents sybil attacks.

If they do, however, get randomly selected to be a reviewer and the task goes into dispute, they are required to cast a vote on whether or not they think the task was actually completed. If a reviewer votes against the consensus or does not vote at all, they do not lose any certain percentage of their staked amount.

Some of the benefits of such a system include:

    Selection happens in secret to prevent reviewers from influencing the consensus through collusion.
    A two-stage voting process (secret commit and then reveal) means reviewers can’t wait to see how other reviewers voted and then just go with the consensus.
    Reviewers would generally be professionals with a relatively large token stake and therefore in a good position to escalate and vote on a dispute."
This would sum up dispute system with incentive for reviewers being 10% of the task value split among them.
2 comments

As for the actual Forbes article I keep mentioning https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidpetersson/2018/10/27/the-p...
Could you elaborate on this?

> If a reviewer votes against the consensus or does not vote at all, they do not lose any certain percentage of their staked amount.

Does that mean they don't lose anything? Or that they lose some amount, but that amount is not a simple fraction of staked amount?

They don't lose anything, but they don't gain anything either.