There can be an issue of quality control. There is a huge underworld of outsider intellectual activity, as a trip to vixra.org demonstrates. In certain fields, the eminent researchers receive a steady stream of papers by autodidacts, claiming new breakthroughs, or refutations of orthodoxy. In a field like that, your blind review site will still need some kind of filter; but what could it be?
There can be an issue of quality control. There is a huge underworld of outsider intellectual activity, as a trip to vixra.org demonstrates. In certain fields, the eminent researchers receive a steady stream of papers by autodidacts, claiming new breakthroughs, or refutations of orthodoxy. In a field like that, your blind review site will still need some kind of filter; but what could it be?