A note on recent content takedowns

Re:A note on recent content takedowns by sega_sai on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:47AM (#28640353)

I have no sympathy for researchgate. They syphon papers, they used black patterns early on to mass-send emails to invite people on the platform. And finally, as a researcher, I never found researchgate to be actually useful.

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Re:A note on recent content takedowns by superkuh on Friday September 24, 2021 @09:30AM (#28642082)

There's no denying the site itself is a bit shady, most of my IP addresses are blocked. I find myself using researchgate hosted full text pdfs pretty regularly the last handful of years. At least a few times a month.

This is far better than there being no pdfs at all. I don't really care about how researchgate tries to run their site beyond this.

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Re:A note on recent content takedowns by ok123456 on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:01PM (#28646507)

But at least there's the network effect of getting access to papers, which is more than you can say about most social networks.

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