Users criticize QED's preprint ranking system as an opaque, half-baked bid to automate academic prestige through counterproductive gamification of science.
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Extraction of content based multi dimensional attributes of various kinds to allow personalized filtering & recommendation of scientific content would be great too. Just don't collapse these into arbitrary rankings. Completely unnecessary. 3/
QED is a half baked, opaque attempt to launch a new automated prestige factory based on the opinion of a singular entity. This is a terrible attempt at market capture from trad journals. 5/
AI assisted re-analysis, cross referenced analysis with other related work, stress testing etc are great use cases rather than "scoring" a paper merely based on the text in a PDF. 4/
The entire effort by QED has gone astray with this counter productive gamification of science. If we want to reform the system, we must resist the urge to get sucked back into yet another arbitrary game. Do not play their game. Let it wither away. 6/6