Hi Tyler - nice comment. Also, wonderful work on www.thecostofknowledge.com! I agree that discovery and credit/prestige are the two key things to get right. I'

Hi Tyler - nice comment. Also, wonderful work on www.thecostofknowledge.com! I agree that discovery and credit/prestige are the two key things to get right. I'm sure that the kinds of systems you're talking about, voting systems, will be part of the research discovery/credit process in the future. It works for web content, and also for very esoteric content on the web (MathOverflow etc), so it should work for research papers too.