# Episode accounts before model arrows

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These episodes were chosen in notes-R4.md before their R4 source openings. This account uses codes and original coder descriptions only. It precedes any dynamic-model arrow. Raw context qualifies the closed codes; it does not add or alter coding.

## Ordinary: `E-03`, making an ostehøvel and keeping it recognizable

At hour 23.37611111111111, a participant asks whether the room can make an ostehøvel, a cheese slicer. `c0073` ([deleted]; hour 23.37611111111111; item `62tc6z`; thread `62tc6z`; offsets 0-27): "Kan vi få til en ostehøvel?". The question opens a concrete object rather than asks for undifferentiated Norwegian territory. A following comment reports beginning its top pixels and asks for attention to the outline. The coded words are `c0074` ([deleted]; hour 23.435277777777777; item `dfp0igc`; thread `62tc6z`; offsets 156-178): "fokuser på omrisset nå". The full thread shows why an outline mattered: a participant thought it might let others see what they were trying to make. This is that participant's proposed reason, not a verified effect on everyone placing pixels.

Work was not frictionless. Replies complain about waiting between placements. An attempt to obtain another contribution through a temporary-email account appears in `c0075` (bcG+TPLrgB9ojLzNUOLVZkq9LVk=; hour 23.720277777777778; item `dfp18n5`; thread `62tc6z`; offsets 0-55): "Prøvde å lage en til reddit account med temporary email". The full source adds that the pixel seemed to disappear on refresh, so the coded attempt is not evidence that a new account increased capacity. Another participant reports contacting people already changing the drawing: `c0076` (bcG+TPLrgB9ojLzNUOLVZkq9LVk=; hour 24.26638888888889; item `dfp2ndy`; thread `62tc6z`; offsets 0-66): "Prøver å pm de som som setter randome pixler så kanskje de hjelper". This is recruitment addressed to observed interference, not proof that every addressee joined.

At hour 25.851666666666667, yyn0cHbn9bQ982dWHq800BamX2k= reports completion and a new framing task: `c0077` (yyn0cHbn9bQ982dWHq800BamX2k=; hour 25.851666666666667; item `dfp6lxc`; thread `62tc6z`; offsets 0-56): "Nå som vi e ferdig så har e begynt ramme den inn i rødt.". Later discussion warns that the flag is being built across it. A separate instruction permits continued flag work around the slicer, not through it: `c0101` (l8FtAdiKn2aXr4haywI+TdiLAX4=; hour 27.10861111111111; item `62uqyo`; thread `62uqyo`; offsets 0-41): "Fortsett gjerne flagget rundt ostehøvelen". By hour 30.697222222222223 an original template is offered to people who want to maintain the drawing: `c0139` ([deleted]; hour 30.697222222222223; item `dfpi6y3`; thread `62w0bf`; offsets 0-159): "Til de som vil vedlikeholde ostehøvelen fremover legger jeg ut den originale malen og et bilde av den faktiske høvelen med tykkere skaft og uten lysegrå skygge".

Thus a proposed object acquires outline work, recruitment, a reported finish, framing and maintenance. The same sequence contains interference and difficulty, not a frictionless common purpose. Completion does not finish all care for the object, and the presence of a template does not establish compliance. Reports are evidence of what participants said happened; no image was inspected. The observed edge is the later maintenance offer, not the last reply in the first thread. Nor does this account show that a single leader directed all participants. It shows linked contributions to a named task, with practical specificity and a continuing need to preserve its recognizable form.

## Unpredicted: `E-04`, gathering event posts and catching an unrelated Oslo request

At hour 23.63388888888889, a participant complains about the flag threads filling the front page: `c0079` (r1yDMNXje2OgTpJ4hmOdw28b1Ls=; hour 23.63388888888889; item `62tflm`; thread `62tflm`; offsets 39-92): "Det er 16 tråder på forsiden om de fuckings flaggene.". Another asks to let the room enjoy April Fools. These positions concern how the subreddit should be used, not simply which drawing should win. A moderator then creates a collection thread and announces a lock policy: `c0136` (L6kr5bqyfyFwi3yj29qSG59uoqM=; hour 30.456666666666667; item `62w0bf`; thread `62w0bf`; offsets 112-266): "Derfor er det nå opprettet en samletråd. Alle poster som er på /r/Norge om /r/place, vil bli låst 01:00, slik at de naturlig kan forsvinne ut av forsiden.". Notices repeat across existing threads. The text gives a reason for the locks: letting those threads disappear from the front page. It does not show a corresponding ability to stop or direct canvas placements.

At hour 43.96944444444444, XzuZ4yOYindnL+L7QH817Oui5y8= reports an enforcement action: `c0082` (XzuZ4yOYindnL+L7QH817Oui5y8=; hour 43.96944444444444; item `dfq4ci4`; thread `62tflm`; offsets 100-171): "klikket jeg akkurat "Remove" på alle tråder opprettet etter samletråden". That is a claim to have removed posts created after the collection thread, not a measure of how many participants complied. The redirection practice continues into new proposals and disputes.

The unexpected instance appears at hour 52.95388888888889 in thread `632725`. Its retained source title asks about places to visit in Oslo; its body is removed. EA1r+K5p/lVBLesLhCFRrKOPN+I= gives the event-thread instruction: `c0199` (EA1r+K5p/lVBLesLhCFRrKOPN+I=; hour 52.95388888888889; item `dfqpgp8`; thread `632725`; offsets 0-89): "Bruk [samletråden](https://www.reddit.com/r/norge/comments/62w0bf/rplace_samletr%C3%A5d/)". The full thread explicitly identifies the reply as automatic. The mismatch is positively visible, although the missing body prevents a full account of the request and the record does not expose the bot's matching rule. It would be unwarranted to infer the exact trigger or a moderator's intention from that title.

After original placement closes, a moderator opens another collection thread because the old one is too large and confusing: `c0258` (freiiiNBDp1P6SCJ1bvR0IObNXY=; hour 77.08777777777777; item `639l4l`; thread `639l4l`; offsets 57-188): "Då har /r/place tatt kvelden (på formidaggen) og sidan den forige samletråda er ganske so stor og uoversikteleg so lagar me ein ny.". Event-related removal directions continue through hour 92.51 in `c0292`.

The same policy therefore has intended concentration, continuing enforcement, a false-positive application and later replacement of an unwieldy collection thread. A story in which gathering event discussion automatically makes participation more accessible would miss both the unrelated travel request and the need to gather anew. This episode was not unknown before modelling: its analytical unpredictability is that the gathering practice alone does not predict misclassification. Nor does a mistaken redirect prove all concentration failed. The account preserves both the practical policy and its specific failure of targeting.

## Stopped early: `E-09`, a Sami drawing lost before the event ends

At hour 28.059444444444445, a participant asks about including the Sami: `c0113` (Er6GO2pPyGJjFfN/1DEU7tDXNmc=; hour 28.059444444444445; item `62v431`; thread `62v431`; offsets 0-15): "Hva med samene?". In the full source, others support the proposal and ask where to begin. Ul174uRkI+GmArrQeC/xw69Edkw= reports starting a Sami flag above the Norwegian one and requests help with part of its colours: `c0114` (Ul174uRkI+GmArrQeC/xw69Edkw=; hour 28.456666666666667; item `dfpcxbm`; thread `62v431`; offsets 53-125): "hvis noen kan hjelpe med den grønne og gule stripen hadde det vært flott". Another participant offers a rough sketch: `c0115` (K2TdJZ1SU51hjaSMZGl217bEiwo=; hour 30.285555555555554; item `dfph8tp`; thread `62v431`; offsets 0-36): "Jeg har lagd en veldig grov [Sketsj]". The source expands that sketch into pixel counts and discusses where the circle should begin. Those contextual details show practical work, not an inference from an identity label alone.

This work also needs protection from an activity associated with the same Norwegian flag. While participants discuss correcting the flag's proportions, Ul174uRkI+GmArrQeC/xw69Edkw= adds `c0121` (Ul174uRkI+GmArrQeC/xw69Edkw=; hour 29.670555555555556; item `dfpfsy1`; thread `62vn3k`; offsets 11-49): "bare ikke ødelegg sameflagg-prosjektet". That request makes the possible conflict specific: fixing one drawing could destroy another. The source also contains support for a doubled Norwegian flag, so the proposal's early agreement cannot stand for agreement among all placers.

At hour 51.14527777777778, a later exchange reports the Sami drawing lost: `c0191` (A1/3XmvH8kP+71RuiiogbxIBIZk=; hour 51.14527777777778; item `dfqkn68`; thread `631h35`; offsets 0-31): "dessverre over og ut for samene". A following joke calls it forcibly integrated. The joke is not additional independent verification, but the explicit loss report is stronger evidence of a stopped drawing than silence after a proposal would be.

Relocation remains possible in the discussion: `c0027` (KpjxV4xSsPPXhJNkRNfV9ROGIBk=; hour 52.03888888888889; item `dfqn2rf`; thread `62no9u`; offsets 0-85): "Ser ikke noe problem i å ha sameflagg? Kanskje plassere sameflagget et annet sted? :P". After closure, someone asks why the Sami flag was added and removed. The answer is `c0262` (l8FtAdiKn2aXr4haywI+TdiLAX4=; hour 77.91916666666667; item `dfsestb`; thread `639l4l`; offsets 37-133): "Tror det var meningen å plassere det et annet sted, men alle krefter ble satt inn på ekspansjon.". The speaker's opening expression of belief matters. This is an explanation attributing unfulfilled relocation to effort going into expansion, not proof that every participant knowingly chose that trade-off. The text supplies no restored Sami drawing.

This episode limits an account built from usable instructions, early support and a sketch. Those can coexist with the loss of the task's object. Its observed edge extends into the later explanation, but that does not make the drawing last until then. Loss of this drawing is also not an end to Norwegian organizing: other work and later successor recruitment remain in the record. The limit is failure to preserve this particular project amid competing contributions, with the later relocation outcome still open.