I feel Arxiv is kind of this. Back when I was doing research I had a couple of "papers" that I think had interesting ideas but I just hated the submit/publish

I feel Arxiv is kind of this. Back when I was doing research I had a couple of "papers" that I think had interesting ideas but I just hated the submit/publish dance (part of why I left academia after I years). So I just uploaded the "unedited" PDFs into Arxiv, thinking that maybe someone would find them useful. Fast forward 10 years, I was surprised one of those PDFs was cited by more than 10 published articles. I'm happy I had my cake and ate it too: I could help someone with my ideas and didn't need to do all the bureaucracy. As I think Churchill said: " everyone wants to be famous, but nobody wants to be useful" (sorry I I completely botched the quote) . People nowadays care so much for their image .