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I posted a PDF of a paper from my homepage, but it doesn appear on the front page of CiteULike. Whats wrong?

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I posted a PDF of a paper from my homepage, but it doesn appear on the front page of CiteULike. Whats wrong?

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Nothing’s wrong. If you posted a paper from a site that’s not on the “supported” list, then it will appear in your library, but it won’t be widely publicised on CiteULike (so it won’t appear on the front page, and it won’t appear in the “all papers for tag…” links). Of course, if you post a paper from one of our recognised journals, we know that the paper has already been peer-reviewed, and it will go on the front page. This is hopefully an effective measure against both spam, and lunatics trying to peddle their crazy ideas about the origins of the universe. The spam issue is obvious. If spammers worked out how to post links to the sites they’re trying to advertise (and spammers are sometimes quite clever, if a little evil) and clutter up CiteULike with this junk then they’d obviously do it, and this site would be a worse place for it. Also, because we allow search engines onto CiteULike, the spammers might think that having lots of links to their site might boost their rankings in t

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