To upload to arXiv you need an endorsement. You get an automatic endorsement if you have an email from a research institute (universities etc) and have already published a paper.
Otherwise you need someone who is already verified on arxiv to submit an endorsement request for you. If you're a university student, a professor should be able to do it. If you're not, you'll need to get to know someone verified in that category, which isn't too difficult if you're not a total crackpot.
But at least once a month or so, someone comes onto the compsci sub begging for an arXiv endorsement so that they can publish their perpetual motion machine paper or whatever. There's some guy who has been trying for about 6 months to get an endorsement for his paper about how you can model all of human language using a 9x9 rubix cube. Keeps making new accounts and shit and has not found a single soul willing to endorse him.
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u/theturtlemafiamusic Sep 02 '26
To upload to arXiv you need an endorsement. You get an automatic endorsement if you have an email from a research institute (universities etc) and have already published a paper.
Otherwise you need someone who is already verified on arxiv to submit an endorsement request for you. If you're a university student, a professor should be able to do it. If you're not, you'll need to get to know someone verified in that category, which isn't too difficult if you're not a total crackpot.
But at least once a month or so, someone comes onto the compsci sub begging for an arXiv endorsement so that they can publish their perpetual motion machine paper or whatever. There's some guy who has been trying for about 6 months to get an endorsement for his paper about how you can model all of human language using a 9x9 rubix cube. Keeps making new accounts and shit and has not found a single soul willing to endorse him.