Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by derblitzmann on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:51AM (#18293470)

Well I know for 4chan, each thread is ephemeral and depending on how active a board is, the thread will be deleted. Which I think is the challenge citing it. Since even a day or two after finding it, it can be lost.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by strictnein on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @11:55AM (#18293506)

This is directly addressed in the comment you're responding to.

> "And you have things like the internet archive or Webcite[0] to make sure the web document doesn't disappear."

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by komali2 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:25PM (#18294467)

Does that even work on 4chan? On /b/ threads can vanish in less than an hour. There used to be specialized sites such as 4chanarchive to fill the gap, but last I checked most are dead.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by setr on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:27PM (#18295053)

Afaik there are various ones still existing, but dunno how ephemeral they are (eg archive.moe supports /b/), and how much they miss

And then you just webarchive archive the archive sites instead of 4chan directly :-)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:53PM (#18295789)

Well, this particular thread still exists; somewhere in the Tweets there there was a link posted to an archived version.

[ Parent | on HN ]