Christopher Barker writes:

 > Yes, it needs to be funded somehow, but some sort of donation / non
 > profit / etc funding mechanism would be best -- but I don't think
 > peer reviewers should be paid. Peer review in academic journals
 > isn't cash compensated either.

It's been done.  The most common scheme is nominal compensation (say
USD50 per review) dependent on beating a relatively short deadline
(typically 1-3 months).  But this is not really the same as academic
publishing.  It's also not the same as movie and book reviewers who
are paid staffers (at least they used to be in the days of paper
journals).  It has aspects of both.  It might work here, although
funding and appointment of reviewers are tough issues.

 > I had to look that up: "Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)"
 > 
 > So, yes.

Please, no.  DAOs are fine when only money is at risk (too risky for
me, though).  But they're a terrible way to manage a community or its
money.  Too fragile, too inflexible.  The history of DAOs is basically
an empirical confirmation of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem

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