So far, it seems that everyone is defending me and no-one is defending
arXiv.
helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes: >So far, it seems that everyone is defending me and no-one is defending >arXiv.
Instead of these three long paragraphs digressing into
irrelevant sidebars about the popularity of Twitter or who
once moderated this newsgroup but making a secret of what
actually /is/ your problem with arXiv, I'd have preferred
the following structure of a post titled "problems with arXiv":
My problem with arXiv is ...
In article <archive-20220216092933@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
My problem with arXiv is ...that a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, one of the handful of top journals in the field of cosmology,
is not allowed into the obviously appropriate astro-ph category at
arXiv.
helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) wri=tes:
In article <archive-20220216092933@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
My problem with arXiv is ...that a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical >Society, one of the handful of top journals in the field of cosmology,
is not allowed into the obviously appropriate astro-ph category at
arXiv.
Already on 2017-03-03, Hontas Farmer complained about
something similar on a Web page titled "Censorship at the
arXiv: endorsements, and even publication won't matter.".
It seems that my own preferences for public online discussion---usenet
over blogs over Twitter---is rather the reverse of the popularity of
those media. As such, I recently joined Twitter to publicize what I see
as a serious problem with arXiv. To some extent, I'm blowing my own
horn, but the problem is much bigger than my problem, and others who are affected are probably more heavily affected and moreover are afraid to
speak out because of fear of getting banned by arXiv (which is itself a problem).
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