Legal Commentary

There was a useful exchange at Prawfsblawg a while back - here and here -  about when to post to SSRN. Having recently had an article accepted for publication, with a couple of smaller symposium pieces in various stages of disarray, I am nonetheless again confronted with the question of when exactly to post my papers to SSRN. Although Bernie Black had some useful thoughts on when, in an ideal world, it might be best to post, don't different rules apply to us untenured folk? I have on occasion been advised as a junior faculty member not to present anything to the outside world, via workshop, SSRN, or otherwise until it is basically in as perfect a form as it is likely to see. On the other hand, obviously, it is usually at the earlier stages of writing that the possible comments one might get from posting the paper will be most useful. (Though I must add I have yet to receive any comments from someone who simply came across my paper on SSRN.) My own decisionmaking about this has been somewhat random.

So, dear untenured readers, when do you post?