Douglas_Knight comments on LessWrong Help Desk - free paper downloads and more (2014) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 February 2014 02:49:51AM 1 point [-]

If you want to donate work to the LW community, go for it. I'm not going to send you anywhere else. But I think some kinds of requests should be sent elsewhere. Why should you put effort into supplying journal articles when people could go to r/scholar? (though trivial inconvenience - I don't have a reddit account) Also, it is more likely that libgen is harvesting r/scholar than this thread, increasing the value of contributions there. Moreover, I suspect that a high volume of such requests will discourage other kinds of requests; I'm glad that so far this year does not look like last year.