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The vast majority may be useless, but a significant minority are valuable (e.g. maybe ~ 10% in HN). Why throw away that value?

• nl 10y ago
  Why 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 ago
    I 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 ago
  Because right now we have a system that works. Email the author. I've ALWAYS gotten a response.
  • arcanus 10y ago
    I think email (private communication) will always be useful. However, some general questions being publicly available would be also arguably have utility.
    • curt15 10y ago
      There are already established forums for discussions, like mathoverflow.