Comment by perching_aix 2 days ago
Unless the OP meant to post specifically the abstract, which I very much doubt, the content submitted is the PDF linked. That said, if that's how the [pdf] tag is meant to be used on this forum, I could understand. Would just also leave me moderately annoyed & wondering why the tag isn't automated then, since that'd be automatable.
Then I am hereby indeed officially moderately annoyed & wondering.
People can read the abstract and then decide if they want to go deeper and also download and read the PDF. I’m sure that many only read the abstract.
Furthermore, depending on publishing site, a paper may also be available as HTML rendered from the LaTeX source, in addition to PDF. (If the page does not now, it may in the future.)
The purpose of a [PDF] tag is to warn about possible unsuitability of the linked resource for mobile consumption (which isn’t the case for the article page linked here), possible download size (though maybe not anymore, nowadays), and possible brightness shock when using dark mode.
> Unless the OP meant to post specifically the abstract, which I very much doubt, ...
On the few occasions I post submissions like this I specifically and deliberately, where possible, post links to abstracts, not the actual papers. People can then skim the abstract and decide whether or not to go further.
[pdf] implies that the link directly downloads a pdf.