Hypothes.is: Taking peer review to the Internet

This is a great idea, however there is fundamental flaw in their hypothes.is, a flaw that is inherent in all comment-based sytems (Hacker News, Digg, Redit ).<p>The flaw is to score people based on past comments, thereby creating a meritocracy that will lead to those voices that need to be heard the most being lost in the noise.

I enjoy the spirit of this idea!<p>I simply fear that clout will ultimately drive it's growth, rather than the desire to correctly inform!<p>Maybe impart a "prick" score (for lack of a better term) that people can rate a comment based off of how accepting the author is at discussing their viewpoint rather than denigrating the person who has a "wrong" answer!<p>Best of luck!<p>-Ben

The founder previously founded GetThere.com which sold to Sabre for $757 million.<p>Wow.

Initially I thought this would be a free system for paper publishing which would let all new papers published to be available in public domain.<p>Why doesnt such a thing exist by the way?

It's a great vision, but their website does not disclose how will they implement it better than existing similar projects.