Bob Novella

If you're a first time poster, you need to get an endorsement from somebody who's already posted to the archive in your field.

So that's... No, I don't think that's draconian.

Okay.

Yeah, I agree with you.

But then most recently, if a submission contains incontrovertible evidence, you are basically banned for a year.

and you're banned for a year, and you need to have something published in a peer-reviewed journal before you can come back to archive, if you're caught with incontrovertible evidence.

Yeah, it seems reasonable to me.

Yeah, I would say, I mean, one downside that seems reasonable to me is that, you know, a lot of papers today, there's not one, two, or three authors.

I mean, I've seen papers with dozens to hundreds of authors, and potentially what would happen here is that you got one punk

uh, who's responsible for some of the paper uses AI irresponsibly and then everybody gets banned.

So that seems a little bit like, uh, maybe they should, I would expect that if, if one, you know, one junior submitter to a paper that also has scores of other submitters, I would think they would probably say to the, say to the archive, Hey, you know, this was just one guy.

Can you reconsider and maybe just ban him and not, and not her.

I agree.

No, I totally agree with that.

You've got to work together.

I'm just trying to think logistically how that would be handled.

I agree.

Oh my God.

They would put a rock in their sock, strap you down to that bed, and whack you with it over and over, a la Full Metal Jacket.

Full Metal Jacket.