I mostly agree with you. But I absolutely despise debates. They are more often than not worthless. They are based on charisma and how good you are at language, not facts. Discussion is the right word. I've often thought of pushing directly to OpenReview rather than just arxiv, but discussions can get off base quickly and novices can dominate (while academic Twitter is great, this happens there a lot). It is not our job as a researcher to communicate our ideas to laymen, that's the job of science communicators. Sure, it is great and a bonus, but please stop asking on my github how to do something that is in the pytorch intro tutorial. Read the tutorial or attend my class. Open discussions are nice in theory, but HN and Reddit are good examples at how these systems often get over burdened with noise. There's a catch-22 and so it is a tough call.
