A note on recent content takedowns

Re:A note on recent content takedowns by dikei on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:31AM (#28640268)

Back when I was a student, I never like ResearchGate: they forced you to create an account, then upload some random rubbish PDFs just to get credits to download what you want.

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Re:A note on recent content takedowns by captn3m0 on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:38AM (#28640308)

The only few times I’ve thanked RG is when an obscure PDF was no longer on the university or author’s website by RG had a copy cancelling out the link rot.

Other than those few times, I’ve never found it useful.

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Re:A note on recent content takedowns by dikei on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:54AM (#28640762)

Truth, I think I only used them one or twice to download some papers with attractive names that couldn't be found anywhere. It turned out the papers were quite bad, I figured they wouldn't be so hard to find otherwise.

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