The arXiv.org has become the “stamp of approval” for scientific research in astronomy, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear science, biology, etc. Recently, arXiv.org have made a policy that submission requires an “endorser”. That is, if the author(s) have not gotten a paper up on arXiv.org in a particular field they must be endorsed by someone who has. Meaning, it is not what you know but who you know. It seems to me that arXiv.org is acting as an unofficial refereed journal and "publishing" as they wish. Is this healthy for the decimation of original scientific research in these areas?
ArXiv is one of the major pre-print services and it is connected to many research databases. To my knowledge, arxiv.org accepts a lot of submissions across various disciplines. The ArXiv moderators say that the number of submissions in ArXiv is larger than they can handle and hence they have to implement some measures to reduce the number of submissions and ensure good quality submissions in ArXiv. Endorsement system is introduced as one of such measures.
I think that their arguments might be true and hence I don't see any problems with their present strategy..
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