Two astronomy papers are up on the Nature website for open critique, the new experiment with open peer review that Nature is conducting.
Baryonic sweeping as the origin of the darkest galaxies in the Universe - Mayer et al
Fire at will.
I think comments are open to everyone, not just subscribers. Someone tell me if non-subscribers are blocked.
Comments and commenter IDs are public I believe.
Only comment I saw on quick browsing was on one of the squicky bio papers on sex... [sic]
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Threaded comments have advantages but they also have disadvantages. I won't mention the disadvantages because if you don't know what they are already than they aren't disadvantages to you.
For the past few weeks, I have allowed commenters to post using their TypeKey account. I didn't want to require commenters to register with TypeKey if they did not want to, so I still allowed comments from unregistered readers.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the unscientific survey on commenting. The results are back, and I'd like to share them with you.
There have been quite a few posts over the last few days about commenting, in particular about posting comments, notes and ratings on scientific papers. But this also related to commenting on blogs and social networks, commenting on newspaper online articles, the question of moderation vs.
Comments are vetted, but I think open for everyone.