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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 34 points 7 months ago

Not only is this paper real: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393.pdf

But they actually made it practical:

We have implemented two ways to reveal the actual names present in an overlapping stack, when viewing a PDF file on a computer.

First, hovering over the stacked names should pop up a tooltip with the authors listed in their original order, as shown in Figure 1.

This feature works on many desktop PDF viewers (e.g., Acrobat, Evince, Firefox, VSCode), but notably not Chrome, Edge, Safari, or MacOS Preview. It also does not work on mobile devices we tested (probably because they lack a natural notion of “hovering”).

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

That doesn’t sound very practical at all.

All it’s done is force you to read a tooltip. Which is an awful idea. The tooltips still create a first-author situation, so now your forced to screw around with a tooltip for…. Nothing.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

I mean, relatively practical. Just the fact that they actually made an effort. It's not much different from having it in a footnote

[-] alehc@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

Easy fix (for html). Just embed js to randomly shuffle the order of the authors every time you hover or something.

[-] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 7 months ago

I think the point is to recognise a paper by its author blob so you don't end up needing the tooltip that much (they talk about it in the paper) I'm not really convinced that it's worth it, but they did think it through.