# kaal:claim:6269518-035

**Claim.** A system that permits strategic under-citation effectively transfers value from genuine contributors to free-riders and thereby violates the equity norm of DAO governance.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- governance operating under an equity distributive norm

**Source quote.**

> A system that permits strategic under-citation effectively transfers value from genuine contributors to free-riders, violating the equity norm.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance* (2026), VI.A. Distributive Norms and Citation Honesty, page 16

**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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**Failure mode.** value transfer to free-riders  (family: collective-action-and-coordination-failure)

**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge

**Keywords.** equity-norm, free-riding, distributive-norms, under-citation

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