No worries. I was really writing for an audience of academics and, in particular, people involved in the various open science and publication reform movements.

No worries. I was really writing for an audience of academics and, in particular, people involved in the various open science and publication reform movements. Sharing here was a bit of an after thought, so it wasn't written for an audience unfamiliar with the intricacies of academic publishing. It's a complicated enough space as it is that this is already a 4-5 article series with the potential to grow, even when I'm writing with the assumption of quite of a bit of knowledge. But yeah, "preprint review" is considered post-publication review both in and outside of academia. There are nuances to what is consider "publication" in academia. A preprint is not a "Version of Record", meaning it doesn't count towards tenure and promotion. The movement pushing for preprint review is attempting to layer review on top of already public preprints in the hopes that reviewed preprints can begin to count as VORs. It's unclear whether that will work. Some models, like eLife's, seem more promising than others. But eLife got a ton of backlash when they switched to their new reviewed preprint model, so it remains to be seen whether it will work in the long run.