[parpfish]

Agreed. Journals have a hard time getting quality reviews from known scientists working in the field. Opening it up to randoms will be a nightmare.

Remember all that hype around LK-99 room temp superconduction a few months back? The substantive scientific discussion would absolutely be drown out by curious laymen and/or grifters

[geysersam]

That can be fixed. Just optionally filter the comments to only include sufficiently "reputable" sources (potentially people with status in the community or people you follow explicitly).

And to be fair, few scientific news get even remotely near the attention that superconductivity announcement got.