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The quality standard of peer review, especially within computer science, is declining. I've read lots of papers only to discover obvious method flaws or dishonest statistics. With a simple comment section, this would be trivial to filter out. And don't get me started on the price for publication and for readers that supposedly fund this "detailed peer review process" that misses so many obvious flaws. The peer review…
I agree. Journals have been publishing "responses" for ages, so there always has been a "comment section" of sorts. But it could be so much easier! Personally I haven't really seen or been involved in a response. It would not surprise me if that tradition is dying because it's so much easier to comment somewhere on the internet where some people will see it. But of course without an official endorsement from the jour…
I don't like how software has to be actively maintained to be usable or taken serious but the results are hard to question.