Putting papers and code on arXiv shouldn't be punished. The incentive to do this is to protect your idea from getting scooped, and also to inform your close community on interesting problems that you're working on and get feedback. ArXiv is meant for work in progress ideas that won't necessarily stand the peer review process, but this isn't really acknowledged properly on social media. I highly doubt the Twitter storm would have been this intense if the twitter posts explicitly acknowledged this as a "Draft publication which hints as X." But I admit that pointing fingers at nobody in general and social media specifically is a pretty lazy solution.
The takeaway IMO seems to be to prepend the abstract with a clear disclaimer sentence conveying the uncertainty of the research in question. For instance, adding a clear "WORKING DRAFT: ..." in the abstract section.
The takeaway IMO seems to be to prepend the abstract with a clear disclaimer sentence conveying the uncertainty of the research in question. For instance, adding a clear "WORKING DRAFT: ..." in the abstract section.