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> But how could we know they add nothing or missed something important like a not? Probably by reading it.

• croes 3y ago
  So I read the original after the abstract? Sounds like more work not less.
  • yu3zhou4 3y ago
    Here's how I picture this, in an optimistic scenario: Once the number of abstracts grows up, we vote up and down on them, so at the end you get the best abstract for each paper, which is supposed to be informative enough to give you a gist of what authors have learned from their research. It should be enough to let you keep an eye on what's going on in research world in real time and also serve as a filter on what paper is worth reading next This is a grand vision of course, right now we have 9 abstracts, but hey, it's still a good starting point! :p
  • squigz 3y ago
    No... the author reads it before publishing...
  • wongarsu 3y ago
    Presumably you read the summaries to find promising papers where you will read the abstract (which you then follow up by reading the figures, conclusion, discussion, introduction, then the rest, bailing out once you think this isn't a paper you want to read further). If at any point you figure out the "community abstract" was misleading you can come back and downvote it. The only issue is if community abstracts get published that make good papers unappealing to read, or if the majority of votes come from people who don't actually engage with the paper