• rsfern 21 hours ago

    Review by committee sounds like not very much fun, but reading the description it could actually be kind of nice to work through one’s thoughts about a paper though web chat with (anonymous) friends. One of the big slogs with the current solitary review workflow is there’s nobody to commiserate with when the article is tricky not-very-strong-but-not-flat-reject space…

    Also, I’m realizing that it would be pretty nice to be able to push back on the classic Reviewer 2 behavior before the authors have to deal with it

    • sideshowb a day ago

      I'm all for this sort of experiment and wish them the best with it.

      Just gonna leave this line here though:

      > We’ve had to cap the number of reviewers on each article at seven, because that’s what our software can handle.

      Maybe I can get an article published on 4 bit arithmetic? It'll be a significant breakthrough.

      • martabarus1 3 hours ago

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