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Hard maths on viXra?

A few years ago a nice paper surveyed the differences in quality between papers submitted to arXiv and those submitted to arXiv's rough cousin, viXra. However, that paper was about generic contributions to natural sciences, whereas this post on Quora is somewhat focussing on physics. Whence my question: what's the shape of maths on viXra? Should one ever bother to take a glance there, too? (I've just checked the contributions in analysis and I must admit I was a bit scared.) Are you aware of any mathematical article later quoted by, say, more than ten different peers and originally published on viXra?

EDIT: Of course, the mathoverflow police put this on hold within few hours. While I do understand that this is not a math research question (not in the usual MO sense, at least), this is certainly a question meant to be answered by math researchers. MO is meant to model the social interaction of a math conference; too bad there is no such thing as a StackExchange that reproduces coffee breaks and social dinners as well.

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