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> might be a dangerous area to venture into. The only danger is that the true obnoxious nature of some academics would be aired in public. There is a lot to ga
by return0 10y ago
> might be a dangerous area to venture into.
The only danger is that the true obnoxious nature of some academics would be aired in public. There is a lot to gain from opening up a discussion in each paper. Asking questions, making clarifications, even suggesting improvements are things that are not possible to do now.
- nl 10y agoThe only danger is that the true obnoxious nature of some academics would be aired in public. I'm not sure how you can say that. Generally, the comments on the vast majority of internet sites are pretty low quality, and even insightful and useful ones are difficult to find because of all the noise.
- return0 10y agoThe vast majority may be useless, but a significant minority are valuable (e.g. maybe ~ 10% in HN). Why throw away that value?
- nl 10y agoWhy throw away that value? Because others can extremely negative - to the point where they may put some people off publishing in open forums. The very small amount of value that they may add is easy outweighted by a single person not publishing.
- return0 10y agoI do not believe that. On the other hand not all publishing is valuable: http://www.nature.com/news/the-pressure-to-publish-pushes-down-quality-1.19887 http://www.nature.com/news/the-pressure-to-publish-pushes-do...
- rubidium 10y agoBecause right now we have a system that works. Email the author. I've ALWAYS gotten a response.
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