the difficult isn't designing such a system. the problem is getting people to use it, and having institutions accept the publications as part of a researchers C

the difficult isn't designing such a system. the problem is getting people to use it, and having institutions accept the publications as part of a researchers CV. (come to think of it..if I'm a department chair - maybe I should be reading the papers of my faculty instead just trusting SIG* to do a good job). I think a reputation system (ala HN, but a little more transitive) would work just fine here. and then the reviewers get some measurable benefit for doing a good job. and then each paper thread just stays open persistently and people can ask questions, and reviews can get posted, and talks and slides attached. then you can do inline comments and revision control and then people can collectively manage the topic taxonomy and publish things like field survey papers.