[wolverine876]

> he's kind of right. A preprint is just a badly formatted blog post published in a pdf. Until its finished and published

No, it has empirical data, most importantly, and also methods, analysis, conclusions, citations. It's nothing like a blog post, or another way of looking it it - it is an extraordinary blog post.

[tokai]

Oh yeah all those things have never been seen in a blog post. But you are missing the point.