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How is "flag-planting" even relevant to this ? You only cite what you use and you should not be using vapid hollow flag-planting sources from _anywhere_. Someon
by SeanMacConMara 9y ago
How is "flag-planting" even relevant to this ? You only cite what you use and you should not be using vapid hollow flag-planting sources from _anywhere_. Someone needs a fresher course on academia 101. Is it the reviewers ?
- zackchase 9y agoFlag-planting is relevant because the practice of flag-planting (and other abuses of the pre-print) is what has prompted some of this over-reaction.
- qznc 9y agoThere is a lot to be fixed about reviewers, but I have no clue how to do that.
- mattkrause 9y agoThe issue is that some people (appear to be) submitting very preliminary, and arguably low quality work to arXiv to stake a claim to some area. Once that work is "out there", people who were making a more serious effort to do things more carefully are obligated to cite the original work, presumably as part of the related work/background/etc. I can see how this would be maddening, particularly if you started before the flag-planting paper was even written.