# kaal:claim:6269518-024

**Claim.** Awarding validators a reputation bonus for detecting under-citation that consensus agrees with creates a positive incentive for vigilant citation policing.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- consensus agreement on the detected under-citation

**Source quote.**

> Validators receive a reputation bonus for detecting under-citation that consensus agrees with, creating a positive incentive for vigilant citation policing.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), IV.D. Solution 4: Mandatory Citation Minimums with Validator Override, page 12

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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**Topics.** consensus-and-security, risk-and-incentives, citation-and-knowledge, reputation

**Keywords.** validators, policing-incentives, under-citation-detection, reputation-bonus

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