A big part of "open access" is "accessibility" -- and a big part of accessibility is consistent formatting, typesetting, abstracts, etc. Without this, scientifi

A big part of "open access" is "accessibility" -- and a big part of accessibility is consistent formatting, typesetting, abstracts, etc. Without this, scientific papers become much harder to process electronically and turn into semi-structured data that is machine-readable. You need an organization to take stewardship of this process and escalate when the process breaks down, because all processes have escalations and exceptions. You also need a group capable of certifying experts in a field. In journals, this is done by the editor - who is usually an expert, or at least enough of an expert to know who the experts in a field are. What you described is basically Reddit -- and there's nothing wrong with Reddit, but I think it's a little unstructured for scientific discourse.