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Discussion is paramount to both ideation and understanding. Why don't we see more public discussions among academics?

• dalke 11y ago
  Are you referring to systems like PubPeer and PubMed Commons? (Note: a New Zealand company in this field spammed me to get me to sign up, so that was an immediate "no" to wanting to even name them.) FWIW, I thought there was already a lot of public discussions among academics.
  • Satifer 11y ago
    Yes. The two you mentioned seem fairly outdated in terms of UI/UX and functionality.
    • dalke 11y ago
      HN is also "fairly outdated" in that regard. But you asked about public discussions, which is a rather different topic.
• geographomics 11y ago
  In a sense, publishing a research paper is part of an ongoing public discussion, in reply to all the other authors cited in your work. Apart from that, there are talks at conferences which are open to discussion with the audience. I suppose there's not really a need for much more than that, in the public sphere. There is plenty of private discussion amongst one's peers of course.