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Policies: one paper per year, licenses, withdrawal

The one-paper-per-year rule

Each member may submit 1 new paper per calendar year. The year is the calendar year in America/New_York, and it resets at midnight on 1 January.
The limit applies to the submitter (the account that submits), not to authors who did not submit. If you co-author a paper that a colleague submits, it does not count against you.
New versions are free. Replacing your paper with an improved version, correcting a typo, or updating the journal reference or DOI never uses a slot.
Withdrawing does not give the slot back. Otherwise a member could submit, withdraw and resubmit indefinitely. The withdrawn paper remains visible (marked as withdrawn) together with its earlier versions.
Moderator removal may refund the slot. If a moderator removes a paper for a reason that is not the author's fault (for example a mistaken upload), they may return the slot. Removals for violating policy do not.
New Year's Eve. A slot belongs to the calendar year in which you press Submit, not the year the paper is announced. A paper submitted at 23:59 on 31 December uses that year's slot even though it is announced on the next announcement day in January (its identifier carries the announcement month). The new year's slot is free from midnight on 1 January, so you may start your next paper the same morning. A paper you un-submit returns the slot of the year in which you submitted it.
A new version must still be the same paper. Revisions can change a great deal, but a new version whose title and abstract share too little with the earlier versions is refused: otherwise the yearly limit could be sidestepped by posting one paper and replacing it with a different one. If you really are rewriting the work, ask the moderators to allow it; if it is a different paper, it needs next year's slot.
Drafts do not use a slot. The slot is used at the moment you press Submit on the final step (when the paper is scheduled for announcement), not at the announcement itself. Un-submitting a paper before it is announced returns the slot, because nothing was ever made public.

One person, one account

Each person may hold one account. Registering several accounts (for example with different .edu aliases) to get around the yearly limit is a violation of these policies; the accounts and any papers posted this way may be removed.

What may be submitted

Original research in a subject area we accept, in PDF form, that you are entitled to distribute.
The submitter must be an author, or have the explicit permission of all authors.
Work that is unfinished, promotional, plagiarised, machine-generated without disclosure, or outside the scope of the subject area may be removed.

Licenses

When you submit, you choose how others may reuse the paper. The options are the Creative Commons licenses CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, CC0 1.0, or a perpetual, non-exclusive license that lets 1xiv distribute the paper while all other rights remain with the authors. The license of the first version cannot be changed by later versions. Whichever you choose, you keep your copyright and may publish the paper elsewhere.

Versions and withdrawal

Every paper keeps all its versions; each is permanently addressable as /abs/2610.00001v1, v2, and so on. If you withdraw a paper, the page shows your reason and the previous versions remain available, because other people may already have read and cited them.

Removal by moderators

Moderators can remove papers that violate these policies or the law. A removed paper disappears from listings, search and downloads; its page shows a notice. Every moderation action is recorded in an internal audit log. To appeal, contact jkudlerflam@gmail.com.