kaal:claim:6269518-023

Validators correcting citations should be permitted only to increase outward citations and never to decrease them, because a power to decrease would enable collusion to help allies under-cite competitors.

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In the second phase, validators can increase citations to others if they detect under-citation. Critically, validators can only increase outward citations. They cannot decrease them. Thus, preventing collusion to help allies under-cite competitors.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026), IV.D. Solution 4: Mandatory Citation Minimums with Validator Override, p. 11
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Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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two phase citation submission with validator correction authority

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