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Why do you feel that? I think it seems excellent. Comments will be scrutinized and sorted by the community. People can choose if they want to participate in the discussion under their own names or not.

I don't know how this page organizes moderation, but I imagine there will be some kind of moderation like on most online discussion forums.

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But it's a very difficult problem. Am open forum offers a platform to troll and misinformation. You could pretend that the community will be able to filter this out but I seriously doubt this project is equipt to fight against bots/fake accounts better than huge companies like twitter and facebook.

Agreed. Journals have a hard time getting quality reviews from known scientists working in the field. Opening it up to randoms will be a nightmare.

Remember all that hype around LK-99 room temp superconduction a few months back? The substantive scientific discussion would absolutely be drown out by curious laymen and/or grifters

That can be fixed. Just optionally filter the comments to only include sufficiently "reputable" sources (potentially people with status in the community or people you follow explicitly).

And to be fair, few scientific news get even remotely near the attention that superconductivity announcement got.

Stack overflow and wikipedia fights bots pretty well despite neither being backed by huge rich organizations.

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