[rossjudson]

This puts the burden to make sure it's right on the submitter, where it should be. Verification can come at any time after that; the submitter understands the consequences of hallucinated references. Verification can be crowd-sourced (and likely will be).

Nothing stops someone from putting a PDF on the internet. I'm fine with ArXiv holding a high standard.

[DANmode]

More than fine, let’s encourage it.

We deserve it, it’s one of the ways to differentiate from the Elsevier et al shitboxes!

[duskwuff]

Not to mention Zenodo, Academia.edu, etc.