Maybe. Writing a publication is a lot more work than a post on 4chan, even if it's a good post. If it's not your field you might well not bother to write the p

Maybe. Writing a publication is a lot more work than a post on 4chan, even if it's a good post. If it's not your field you might well not bother to write the paper. (After all, it's not your field, somebody might have solved it since it didn't seem that hard, and do you really want to do an exhaustive literature research for a fun puzzle you worked out?)