Pith Number

pith:JJMHZUAL

pith:2017:JJMHZUALCWSMIXMYKBFNLEJERK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Army of Me: Sockpuppets in Online Discussion Communities

Jure Leskovec, Justin Cheng, Srijan Kumar, V.S. Subrahmanian

arxiv:1703.07355 v1 · 2017-03-21 · cs.SI · cs.CY · physics.soc-ph · stat.AP · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JJMHZUALCWSMIXMYKBFNLEJERK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:48:09.000642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a587cd00b15a4c45d98504ad591248a89e9ce45d34857a5030170e9fe6d92ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07355 · arxiv_version: 1703.07355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07355 · pith_short_12: JJMHZUALCWSM · pith_short_16: JJMHZUALCWSMIXMY · pith_short_8: JJMHZUAL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JJMHZUALCWSMIXMYKBFNLEJERK \
  | 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: 4a587cd00b15a4c45d98504ad591248a89e9ce45d34857a5030170e9fe6d92ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b3746ff65187a0df162f73ced3cf5baec5e5bc239acd7331afff31c06a1ed0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "physics.soc-ph",
      "stat.AP",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T18:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8d916e18e1b3722ede24dbe251c319e6ca797b74e232fd14a971ede968ce472"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}