On: Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Foru...

[planetguy]

>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.

[pgbovine → planetguy]

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