The lack of public feedback and in-depth peer review in most posts here
The lack of feedback at all for newcomers [...]
I think you need to distinguish clearly between wanting more peer interaction/feedback and wanting more peer review.
Academic peer review is a form of feedback, but it is mainly a form of quality control, so the scope of the feedback tends to be very limited in my experience.
The most valuable feedback, in terms of advancing the field, is comments like ‘maybe if you combine your X with this Y, then something very new/even better will come out’. This type of feedback can happen in private gdocs or LW/AF comment sections, less so in formal peer review.
That being said, I don’t think that private gdocs or LW/AF comment sections are optimal peer interaction/feedback mechanisms, something better might be designed. (The usual offline solution is to put a bunch of people together in the same building, either permanently or at a conference, and have many coffee breaks. Creating the same dynamics online is difficult.)
To make this more specific, here is what stops me usually from contributing feedback in AF comment sections. The way I do research, I tend to go on for months without reading any AF posts, as this would distract me too much. When I catch up, I have little motivation to add a quick or detailed comment to a 2-month old post.
I think you need to distinguish clearly between wanting more peer interaction/feedback and wanting more peer review.
Academic peer review is a form of feedback, but it is mainly a form of quality control, so the scope of the feedback tends to be very limited in my experience.
The most valuable feedback, in terms of advancing the field, is comments like ‘maybe if you combine your X with this Y, then something very new/even better will come out’. This type of feedback can happen in private gdocs or LW/AF comment sections, less so in formal peer review.
That being said, I don’t think that private gdocs or LW/AF comment sections are optimal peer interaction/feedback mechanisms, something better might be designed. (The usual offline solution is to put a bunch of people together in the same building, either permanently or at a conference, and have many coffee breaks. Creating the same dynamics online is difficult.)
To make this more specific, here is what stops me usually from contributing feedback in AF comment sections. The way I do research, I tend to go on for months without reading any AF posts, as this would distract me too much. When I catch up, I have little motivation to add a quick or detailed comment to a 2-month old post.