the onus is falling on the commenters not on some kind of micro-peer-review panel before an author publishes a post?
Yes, of course. Just regular commenting on a post. (Of course, the “draft sharing” feature of LW that lets an author share a post draft with some small set of users, for them to comment on it prior to publication, is sort of like a “micro-peer-review panel”, and that’s fine too. Although I wouldn’t call it anything like that; it’s just… commenting on a draft.)
That the overall process doesn’t need to change, just people ask more of these kinds of questions and to do right after the post is published. Am I oversimplifying it?
Right, for people to ask more of these kinds of questions, and for authors to invite more of these kinds of questions, and for authors and other commenters to take these kinds of questions as invitations for discussion.
At risk of sounding like a broken record: All you’re imploring people to do is to ask more of these types of questions in the comments immediately?
And for the moderation system to not interfere in this process. (This has been the biggest obstacle by far to anything like what I suggest working properly on Less Wrong.)
Yes, of course. Just regular commenting on a post. (Of course, the “draft sharing” feature of LW that lets an author share a post draft with some small set of users, for them to comment on it prior to publication, is sort of like a “micro-peer-review panel”, and that’s fine too. Although I wouldn’t call it anything like that; it’s just… commenting on a draft.)
Right, for people to ask more of these kinds of questions, and for authors to invite more of these kinds of questions, and for authors and other commenters to take these kinds of questions as invitations for discussion.
And for the moderation system to not interfere in this process. (This has been the biggest obstacle by far to anything like what I suggest working properly on Less Wrong.)