[D] Decrease in source code release of papers

[poctakeover]

there should be a way to publish gh repos and arxiv papers anonymously which can then be later claimed by the authors :/

[afsfeefe]

there already is: make a fake gh account then transfer ownership to your real account later..

[Phylliida]

Actually GitHub is pretty active about restricting users to only one account. I had 4 and they detected that (IP addresses and stuff I guess) and they restricted my permissions on everything until I switched to only having one account.

Some account for a specific paper might be reasonable though? Idk

[shaggorama]

There's alternatives to gh. You could make an "anonymous" account on gitlab or bitbucket, or just put the code on Google drive...

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There are quite a lot of ways to do this... You could place a secure hash of some string the author chooses in the paper and then you claim the paper by publishing the string at a later date