I note the comment in that article
"unfairly reject certain manuscripts or transfer them to the server’s less reputable "general-physics" category. "
This will be a useful quote in explaining that articles in that category are not necessarily as reliable as those in the other sections. We have inadvertently been given a useful tool against the physics cranks.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/17 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Physics cranks drive so much. They were responsible for our "No Original Research" rule, and now they've forked arXiv.org:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39845
viXra.org is for the stuff even arXiv.org doesn't want. It appears to be driven by cranks getting butthurt at being put into the "General Physics" category, i.e. where the nutters get put. Note their stuff still got onto arXiv, they just didn't like the category.
I can hardly wait to see what level of crankery viXra produces ...
arXiv's equivalent of Conservapedia...
Last time I checked, arXiv was for pre-prints - the word suggests to me that it has to actually be going to get printed. It's not supposed to be a place to publish papers, just distribute them faster when they are being published elsewhere.
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