Do I really have to cite an arXiv paper?
Confused by this part:<p>&gt; Yes, of course. Any time that our work follows, copies, or borrows ideas from other people, and when we can reasonably be expected to be aware of this, we ought to cite the related work.<p>&gt; We should not have to cite nonsense. Many reviewers are abusing the system and asking for ridiculous comparison to recently-posted preprint papers. Bald-faced flag-planting should not be rewarded. And we should not be faulted by reviewers for failing to compare against 2-week old algorithms that may or may not work.<p>So what position is the author advocating? Citing or not citing?<p><i>edited</i>