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260 points greyface- | 2 comments | 16 May 25 12:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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A_Duck ◴[16 May 25 12:51 UTC] No.44004852[source]▶
Why must crypto infect everything good?

Is the incentive even necessary? It would be worth testing if there are enough scientists who are keen to promote information sharing in their field without some minimal reward

I also wonder if this will make the penalties for uploaders more severe since it becomes a commercial act

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1. tux3 ◴[16 May 25 12:56 UTC] No.44004901[source]▶
It has already been tried without a reward, there are dedicated channels where you can go to request or fulfill requests (e.g. Nexus has these).

But it's a bit of an endless chore for a person to do, there are always more requests coming. It helps one person, but it doesn't really feel like efficient use of your time when it's a drop in the ocean.

I'm not thrilled with the crypto token thing, but it's good to see new things being tried. The worst that can happen is it doesn't work, there's not much to fear from this particular initiative. The worst they can do if it turns bad is... publish scientific articles.

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2. A_Duck ◴[16 May 25 13:00 UTC] No.44004952[source]▶
Fair enough — didn't realise it had already been tried and it wasn't working without reward. That's not mentioned in the article but does make sense.

There's still a good argument for sci-hub to stay fully non-commercial. Let's see where it goes.

It's not clear if Sci-Hub themselves stand to make any money from this. If they do, the worst that can happen is that their incentives are distorted from being a highly-regarded community resource to maximising the number of manual uploads.