Post #3286773
2026-05-16 12:06 UTC
@neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social
I do think they have an appeal process, but it's not clear how that actually works.
#arXiv has (for a while) had a policy that they will only "preprint"* certain kinds of papers after they appear in a "peer reviewed journal". We ran into this buzzsaw on a theory/perspective paper last year. (No LLMs involved.) Our paper ended up preprinted on psyArxiv, which didn't have this weird rule.
* How is it a preprint if it's already been published?
I suppose there's a problem of how to navigate the flood of slop that's now in the system, but it definitely seems that arXiv is struggling with finding a good policy on this.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social 2026-05-17 00:11
@adredish@neuromatch.social @neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social Yeah same, arxiv is pretty conservative, all things considered, as a preprint server. Arxiv is just being hit hard because it is prestigious among preprint servers and it focuses on the heaviest slopped disciplines.