Abstract
We specify a rate-limited peer-recognition system that separates two user operations and gives them different per-person rate ceilings: origination (creating a new gratitude record about a kindness one noticed), whose sustainable rate is low and inelastic, and re-thanking (endorsing a record another user has already surfaced), a reactive operation with a much higher per-person ceiling, the same creation-versus-reaction asymmetry that gives social platforms their high ratio of reactions to posts. Because each origination can be endorsed by many others, total value-bearing events per day are bounded by N × min(N − 1, K), where N is the number of participants and K the per-person reactive ceiling: quadratic in a small network, linear with a large multiplier in a large one, while each person's origination rate stays near one a day. A gratitude network is compared with a search engine on total funnel-completing events (a narrow, deep funnel against a wide, shallow one), not on interaction frequency. Each endorsement must carry a small transfer from the endorser's own non-withdrawable, forward-spendable balance, so the operation that supplies the volume is also a proof-of-cost filter: one actor cannot inflate it alone, and inflation by a reciprocal collusion ring is costly and appears as a dense reciprocal subgraph. Stated limits: the realized multiplier depends on how originations reach people, by relation and proximity, which is unbuilt; the empirical signal is one family over one month; collusion is made costlier and detectable, not eliminated; and the value requirement trades raw volume for integrity.
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Recommended Citation
Ly, Thon, "The Re-Thank Multiplier: How a Gratitude Economy Escapes Its Own Saturation Ceiling — Separating Low-Rate Content Origination from Value-Bearing Reactions to Scale Peer-Recognition Throughput and Resist Reward Farming", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11885