Re:Easy question (Score 2, Interesting)

Nature (Publishing Group) tried an interesting experiment back in 2006 where they solicited authors to participate in an "Open Peer Review". The jist: most of the editors and the authors found some interesting comments, but the comments were not as helpful as the traditional review process. Additionally, as one might expect, when everyone has the opportunity/responsibility to critique a work, few people actually did. Some interesting nuggets about the review process at Nature as well....