I suggest that if there will be peer reviewing based on reputations, there will need to be identity verifying tokens to sign reviews. So that the system is as trustless and autonomous as possible. All to keep human labor costs as low as possible.

The tokens also track different kinds of reputation. Consider if a major scientist is submitting biased reviews of the work of his competition. His papers might be good, but his ability to write reviews of reviews might be weighted down. This is especially needed in the social sciences . . . wow it's needed there. They have the equivalent of flag wars in those fields. What is the difference between Keynesians, New Keynesians, Neo Keynesians, Classical Keynesians, and Heterodox Keynesians? I don't know, except that they dislike each other . . . Oh, yes, I forgot about some people, the Post Keynesians . . . No children left behind.

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Different tokens are needed to automatically disaggregate all that needs to be kept separate. And that while keeping the human labor involved in managing journals as low as possible. I don't like administrative work, it's time consuming and often fruitless. Let the computers do it. We'll create algorithms for the computers and verify they are carried out by secure tokens.

For example, there was a paper basically proving that involuntary unemployement exists on the premise that if a prospective employee went to an interview and offered to work, but only to work some very small number of hours, such as zero hours, he would not be hired . . .

That's trivial, one might tell the author. Such a paper is either satire or nonsense.

Such a paper is pure wordplay . . . but it was published as if a valid result in a well known journal.

If automatically chosen to review that paper I would've voted not to publish it. To keep it at most as ``submitted'' status. But what happens when retaliation votes come back? Those votes would have be reviewed and themselves voted down and this tracked and this at many levels . . . or better and simpler each subfield of science has it's own token and there are exchange rates for tokens . . . Something like that. (I wonder if some fields would have very bad exchange rates relative all the others.)