Pith Number

pith:4B7ZR7KQ

pith:2021:4B7ZR7KQJEWPYSB777OAE4OQGK

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What Makes Online Communities 'Better'? Measuring Values, Consensus, and Conflict across Thousands of Subreddits

Amy X. Zhang, Galen Weld, Tim Althoff

arxiv:2111.05835 v3 · 2021-11-10 · cs.SI · cs.CY · cs.HC

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\pithnumber{4B7ZR7KQJEWPYSB777OAE4OQGK}

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4 Citations open

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The Relational Origins of Rules in Online Communities

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T04:21:26.501818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e07f98fd50492cfc483fffdc0271d032bff09f26d9ebcab678451f5d8d3d22a8

Aliases

arxiv: 2111.05835 · arxiv_version: 2111.05835v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.05835 · pith_short_12: 4B7ZR7KQJEWP · pith_short_16: 4B7ZR7KQJEWPYSB7 · pith_short_8: 4B7ZR7KQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4B7ZR7KQJEWPYSB777OAE4OQGK \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e07f98fd50492cfc483fffdc0271d032bff09f26d9ebcab678451f5d8d3d22a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5e14d5178afcf7ef4baed561dbd20bdad93527e18e4648c9d1b32142db004af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2021-11-10T18:31:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d65a716c037a4686ee35ad909ef173be004def09130f2c6ca19e04d85493c52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2111.05835",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}