I think you really want the papers posted to be driven by the users. But I understand why you might want an automated approach to bootstrap the site so that there is something there. If you're part of a small research community, it might be worth asking people to post articles they find interesting, and start by constraining it to that community (relevant clip of a paul graham interview: https://youtu.be/rCkCA1EaoVo?si=R6l9UNDjU0yR-fcL , which I think still applies even if this isn't meant to be a "startup")
I wonder if this is a good format though for discussing papers? - There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of comments controlled by up and down votes
'There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of comments controlled by up and down votes'
I had exactly the same thought. Trying to think of a better way to handle this. Doesn't help that PDFs are so difficult to parse correctly.
I wonder if this is a good format though for discussing papers? - There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of comments controlled by up and down votes