What motivates a person to put a soon to be peer-reviewed manuscript on a preprint server?

What happens when you ask twitter for an opinion on preprints? Well first of all, an impromptu competition gets announced, and then the party starts!

On Wednesday, Devin Drown asked what motivates a person to put a soon to be peer-reviewed manuscript on a preprint server? That’s where the fun began…

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By which time you are probably wondering who won?

The answer is… everyone listed in this post! Please contact us to arrange your T-Shirt delivery (info@peerj.com – and we need your size).

We leave the last word to Devin, but if you have your own opinions on the question he posed then add them to the Comments below, or of course, tweet them!

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