[sfgweilr4f]

I'm idly curious:

does arxiv show who reviewed it? credentials etc?

Is there a trust scoring mechanism or some such?

is there some way to show a graph of reviewing?

Is there a restriction on who can post a paper?

(I'm not saying any of these are needed to make it "respectable" or even that they should be... just wondering how arxiv does its thing)

Personally I like the overall concept of arxiv. Even with no one necessarily reviewing a paper, which is probably unlikely, the fact its even accessible for later review when necessary is worthwhile.

[Vinnl]

Speaking of which, if anyone knows someone at arXiv, would be great if you could prod someone to get back to me about this PR or the associated email I sent them about it: https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-browse/pull/197

It would add the ability for people to state that they have reviewed a given work. Might not be the direction they want to go in, or it might not be - but so far I'm not even sure if someone's seen it, unfortunately.

[tempay]

As far as I know the moderator isn’t shown, but that’s probably a good thing as things get approved on a ~overnight schedule so publicly shaming them for mistakes seems counter productive. Additionally the moderation is very light, “April fools” papers are common and I’ve never heard of something being rejected.

For submitting you need to be approved by someone who already has several submissions in that field.