Is the rise of pre-prints lowering the quality and credibility of researcher and increasing the pressure to publish?
The people churning out garbage preprints are also churning out garbage papers in predatory journals which are &quot;peer reviewed&quot;.
The preprints aren't why these people are doing it. Being shit scientists driven by perverse incentives is why they're doing it.
Also I cite preprints all the time from people I know (either directly or by reputation) and it's not a problem because I don't need reviewers to tell me if a paper is good. I can read.