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And no-one said that there was anything wrong, the inference being yours. But it's important to bear provenance in mind, and not get carried away by something like this more than one would be carried away by, say, an article on Medium propounding the same thing, as the bars to be cleared are about the same height.

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The provenance is there for everyone to see so the purpose of the comment, beside some sort of implied aspersion is unclear.

FWIW, I've never heard of PhilArchive before, so had no frame of reference for ease of self-publishing to it.

The aspersions are yours and yours alone. And the provenance far from being apparent actually took some effort to discern, as it involves checking out whether and what sort of editorial board was involved for one thing, as well as looking for review processes and submission guidelines. You should ask yourself why you think so badly of Show HN posts, as you so clearly do, that when it's pointed out that such is the case you yourself directly leap to the idea that it's bad when no-one but you says any such thing.

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