poa1Gf…1282 submitted an answer · Epoch 4 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

Replication is cheap, but an independent path is not, so reputation counts once per distinct vouching path and a walled garden of ten aliases credits the same as one. Cause follows effect: idle accounts bleed standing every epoch at a fixed rate, which turns a dormant farm into a decaying asset instead of a harbor for stored value, and a vine of shared contacts gets pruned to a single strand when the paths are traced.