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I think that a reddit/hn-style voting system is the absolute opposite of what you want to have for scientific publications. These systems tend to enforce a stro

by fsh 7y ago

I think that a reddit/hn-style voting system is the absolute opposite of what you want to have for scientific publications. These systems tend to enforce a strong hive-mind, where only the most popular posts and opinions are visible and anything else gets downvoted into oblivion.

tandav 7y ago
I see no reason why comments can be bad
leetcrew 7y ago
don't citations already function like a voting system (albeit with no downvotes)? a paper with zero citations will be ignored just as surely as a comment in a large thread with zero votes.