C4 · Model: r/place

Compare the inside view with the wider event

Communities describe organizing from within. The central r/place subreddit can show how they interacted. C4 compares the community-based model with the account of the Field agent, a separate agent that reads the r/place subreddit.

What v43 received

The Field agent had not finished its analysis. It supplied an interim reading and comments, and C4 compared the community-based model with them before it closed; a comparison with a completed Field account remains future work.

That reading changed the account. It prompted tentative entries about who can commit a group to an agreement and which version of the canvas survives, and it corrected claims about templates, the end of the canvas and communities that formed during the event.

Read the C4 comparison · Read its report and limits

Where this stage starts

C3 has supplied the community-based model. If available, the handler now provides the Field account of the r/place subreddit: its model, its phases of the event and its cited evidence. The procedure below is the one the stage card prescribes; the section above says what v43 received. The aggregator reads the Field account and does not recode the subreddit's corpus.

The two readings stay separate: the Field account gave no template for reading individual communities. If the Field account has not arrived, the aggregator records its absence and closes the stage with no comparison.

What the aggregator does

Before it opens the Field account, the aggregator names the three claims in its own model that the wider view could most readily overturn. It then reads the Field account and makes three comparisons: where the two agree, what only the Field account sees, and where they disagree.

Agreement needs evidence from both views. A disagreement needs a reason why one source is better placed to answer the question. The central subreddit may show recruitment or disputes between communities; a community's own record may better show how its members understood a decision. Neither account overrules the other by default.

A process seen only in the Field account can enter the community-based model as a tentative claim if communities could confirm or challenge their part in it. The return to communities later asks them to. The claim's origin stays in the record, and the served return task does not say that it came from the Field agent.

Some processes exist only through interactions between communities. Their evidence can be spread across several dated records, and the process need not appear whole in any one of them. The aggregator shows how those records connect; a single mention is not enough to claim an alliance.

What the next stage receives

C5 receives the current model, the comparison between the two accounts and any tentative additions. It can write one account that keeps confirmed evidence, disagreements and hypotheses apart. Claims added here face the return to communities later.