Excuse me for my readily-apparent naivete, but I think we have
something quite like this already. It's called the "internet," and I
think it's perhaps the ultimate version of a truly international,
truly open forum for the discussion of just about anything, freed from
the "commercial exigencies of traditional publishing". Remember, kids:
garbage in, garbage out.
yrz,
ozymandias
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