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Pre-prints as a way of declaring ownership of your research findings (or whatever the humanities equivalent is) seem to be much less of a thing in the humanities. For example, I've heard the fear of someone "stealing" your ideas before you can get formal credit raised as an objection to libraries' attempts to create open access pre-print databases. At my university, dissertations must be submitted and "published" online (a replacement for the two paper copies that used to be printed and stored in the university library), but some students exercise the option of putting an embargo on the online copy, so it's not readable by the public until after they've found a press to publish the book they plan to turn it into.

While this is true, the "flag planting" nature of pre-prints also kind of bugs me. But I know this has been discussed on HN before.

Why would it bug you? It's mostly like having a blog, except that you don't so you use a pre-print platform.

In humanities? We barely have them in Bio outside of CRISPR stuff.