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Who claimed that the primary purpose of peer-reviewed academic papers was to serve as an all-inclusive, real-time, 'democratic' discussion forum?

Next up: "4chan flame comments are a terrible way to incrementally advance the state-of-the-art in a narrow academic field, presenting theorems, experimental data, and citations to closely-related work."

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This is the author. Where did I say anything about "all-inclusive", "real-time" or "democratic"? The closest thing I actually said is that discussions shouldn't take years, but I then pointed out an example of a good discussion midway between "real-time" and "years" (in that case, a few weeks).

>Next up: "4chan flame comments are a terrible way to incrementally advance the state-of-the-art in a narrow academic field, presenting theorems, experimental data, and citations to closely-related work."

Now I'm tempted to test that, by submitting my next paper as a 4chan comment and seeing what kind of response it gets.

semi-related ... some of my colleagues wrote a research paper about 4chan (but I don't think they posted it ON 4chan!):

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/chanthropology/4chan.pdf

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