ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

As an academic and regular submitter to arXiv, this is an eminently sensible policy. I like that it's per-submitter and not per-author, that means that the big labs with large collaborations shouldn't be terribly put out (more authors = more submission budget).

I hope something like this could also be adopted for some of our larger conferences - the absolute limits on co-authorship are what seem to cause the most grumbles.

some highlights:

> In September of 2016, arXiv received 9,869 submissions. In September of 2024, arXiv received 20,569 submissions. This September, arXiv received 40,363 submissions, which in turn generated almost 9,000 support tickets for arXiv staff and moderators.

> arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month, with a limit of three total active submissions at any given time.

Nice writeup and the policy is a step in the right direction. I suspect simple rate-limit measures like this will be a big improvement.

I suspect a logical conclusion Arxiv and elsewhere may be an identity management system with an aggressive filter, and shared blacklists. I suspect that classifying people as spam/slop-submitters, then banning them (or whatever identity they used; name, email, name + organization etc), applying incremental rate limits over the general one, may be required.

This will just force high SNR Posters to other platforms. ArXiv is rate limiting itself out of relevance.