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[{"user_id": 13912, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303498229.4727781, "user_id": 10661}], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303456978.6428361, "message": "found this on reddit http://science.io/", "group_id": 12, "id": 779696}, {"user_id": 10661, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303498247.4912281, "message": "@Vasil  thank you for that!", "group_id": 12, "id": 783959}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303519191.4250109, "message": "I wish it were more useful. It's a great idea, but there is no incentive for academics to improve the content.", "group_id": 12, "id": 786320}, {"user_id": 10661, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303548511.63398, "message": "If you think the content of some papers are too weak, you can always to your own research and write an own paper, that deals with these shortcomings ;) I also read many articles/papers where I think the findings were quite obvious anyway. But why should I blame \"academics\" for that?", "group_id": 12, "id": 788169}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303582401.306633, "message": "For instance there are a total of 15 papers added to Astronomy. That's less than the average added to astro-ph (the arxiv's astronomy section) every single day.", "group_id": 12, "id": 790426}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303582325.687053, "message": "The papers on science.io are fine. That's not the issue.", "group_id": 12, "id": 790424}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303582354.7341731, "message": "The problem is that not enough people in the field use it for the curations and favs to be useful/accurate.", "group_id": 12, "id": 790425}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303582415.483552, "message": "And there are 0 comments...", "group_id": 12, "id": 790427}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303582463.7851391, "message": "Many people have tried the rate/review/comment on this journal article format site, but none of them have ever gotten scientists involved because there is no reason for them to do so. Sad really.", "group_id": 12, "id": 790431}, {"user_id": 10661, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303602123.0252559, "message": "Yes, but that's the problem for every new platform, isn't it? It's the same here as well ... it could take quite a while, until a critical mass uses something. It may also never happen ... the question is: how could that be changed? In my opinion basically just by contributing. By building content, rating, writing comments, until there is enough interesting content, that attracts more people. It's time-consuming and sort of risky, but I have no other idea than this. People don't come, when there's nothing to see ...", "group_id": 12, "id": 792210}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303669622.1504071, "message": "One possibility to populate it would be to make it compulsory somehow. Maybe necessary to get into a conference?", "group_id": 12, "id": 795981}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303721111.1705201, "message": "@justinlilly That is kind of brilliant. Most active users get picked for some sciencey vip stuff.", "group_id": 12, "id": 801271}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303721014.843354, "message": "@goetz right but the people in this case are academics. It has proven incredibly difficult to get them to use any platform beyond journals. I think Mendeley (http://mendeley.com) is doing the best job so far.", "group_id": 12, "id": 801244}, {"user_id": 10661, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303724190.807013, "message": "@caseywstark Thank you! I just signed up there to take a look at that site ...", "group_id": 12, "id": 802022}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303798145.231777, "message": "academics are people too. You have to provide them with something they want. One sure-fire way to get academics to use your platform is to offer them grants, or perhaps make it VERY easy for other people to give them grants. etc.", "group_id": 12, "id": 810809}, {"user_id": 218, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303798210.660609, "message": "thing I read recently says that 40% of an academic's time is seeking funding.", "group_id": 12, "id": 810815}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [{"date_created": 1303854990.586024, "user_id": 10661}, {"date_created": 1304561547.15149, "user_id": 12709}], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1303848200.7946849, "message": "\"academics are people too\" -- this is a nefaruius lie!  they are not people, and I won't believe it unless I see a peer reviewed paper confirming it", "group_id": 12, "id": 818294}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1304231300.6123769, "message": "@justinlilly It depends on what you consider seeking funding, but that seems super high.", "group_id": 12, "id": 874046}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1304231417.9724791, "message": "Some people have suggested that scientists should involve the public more in funding, a la kickstarter, but there are very large barriers to both scientists and the public to make that happen.", "group_id": 12, "id": 874048}, {"user_id": 7911, "stars": [], "topic_id": 20818, "date_created": 1304231492.841989, "message": "The easy grant thing would definitely help, but only works for small projects. You still need the giant agencies for the big goal science.", "group_id": 12, "id": 874049}]