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There isn't nearly enough time to read a even a fraction of the information published that is (more or less) carefully selected, analzyed, vetted, and explicated in papers.

Nobody has time to trawl through random junk that people will upload to the internet. Moreover, if one is proposing to run an archive, it needs to have serious long-term funding to prevent data from from being lost. Even the NCBI has trouble maintaining funding for projects like the Sequence Read Archive.

FigShare has funding from not for profit agencies. Storage is cheap. Linking data avoids the trawling.