Who will wish to lose friends by writing public reviews?
The problem is much smaller than you might think. In conventional
journal reviewing, a critical review can be very damaging, because
it delays the publication of the paper, thereby creating the risk
that the author loses the priority (and the result) altogether.
In our system, the author already has the publication date
when the paper was published; noone can take that away from
him or her. Therefore, it becomes much easier to see a critical review
for what it is: a way of helping the author to improve the paper.
Besides, voluntarily writing a public
review for someone else's paper shows that you
consider that paper to be of importance. It should be seen as a
supportive act, not as an aggression. A paper that inspires several
people to write statements both for and against it is certainly
much more interesting than a paper that doesn't.
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