Maybe it should remain separate from the rigorous stuff, but where's the "Op-Ed section" of academic publishing?
That said, there are certain open avenues for making such knowledge public. MathOverflow is one. Some academics document their guild knowledge in "technical papers" which they put up on their website. The ML community (which I'm not part of, but that I'm able to observe as an outsider) seems to be particularly open when it comes to publishing blog posts -- sometimes to gain reputational points?
In some journals, arguments over publications are carried out in the Letters to the Editor section. Sometimes this leads to public feuds however, and some academic communities are small enough that if you make too many enemies your publications may be visited upon with disfavor when it comes time for peer review. It's not worth getting into public tiffs unless there's a principle at stake.
> Sometimes this leads to public feuds however, and some academic communities are small enough that if you make too many enemies your publications may be visited upon with disfavor when it comes time for peer review. It's not worth getting into public tiffs unless there's a principle at stake.
This is more the kind of thing I was using the word "toxic" to describe. Of course I know this is a widespread and deep-seeded problem and not one that could be fixed overnight, I was just commenting on it
You could argue it's kind of like a long abstract, but a long abstract really indicates you intend to probe it further, but in actual fact you might just want to indicate that there might be something there for somebody else.
> blogs or something like a technical report directly
> published by a lab/working group to be quite honest.
I think this is kind of the problem, half of this stuff sits on a webpage somewhere completely unread and not really reference-able.
> I'd say the likelihood of an IEEE rubberstamped one pager
> on perpetual motion would be non-zero.
I would hope that each single page would be reviewed with the same integrity as a six pager. Of course, it's not impossible crap leaks through to any conference/journal.
That's a good way. It's called knowing your audience. No one wants to be savaged on HN or Reddit by a bunch of people.
But, then again, lots of academics will outright ignore blogs - if they're ever brought up in "serious" discussion.