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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by lumberjack on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:26PM (#8864626)
I don't think that a very good idea. People outside of that specific area of research would have no way of knowing whether a particular research proposal is worth funding or not.

I would expect people to end up funding the department which can produce the best promotional video. Then I expect departments to start spending ridiculous man hours producing promotional youtube videos.

Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by untilHellbanned on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:37PM (#8864688)
Our site has a whole Stackoverflow-based review and voting processes. So crowdfunding is a smaller part of it. Also, you don't submit a video. You just post the work and a preview if you see fit. The content can be of any type (doc, audio, video, images, HTML5 apps). It is worth understanding the site more before striking it down.
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by qzcx on Friday January 09, 2015 @07:47PM (#8865364)
Then why did you introduce it as a "crowdfunding for Science site", if "crowdfunding is a smaller part of it"?
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by untilHellbanned on Friday January 09, 2015 @08:52PM (#8865550)
Because most people know what crowdfunding is. The General public doesn't know about Stackoverflow and Onarbor is not a Q&A site. It's about publishing, reviewing, and funding content. That's not very catchy so I would appreciate it if you might have alternative suggestions on how to describe it.
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by ohquu on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:02PM (#8865878)
How is this site science related? I search science, and the only thing that pops up is "Science Fiction Paintings." I search physics, and the only thing that pops up is "Karate."
Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by untilHellbanned on Saturday January 10, 2015 @08:19AM (#8866698)
The simple answer is the site is new and that's what people are posting. We aren't censoring submissions. The point is to be inclusive. If you know academic journals you know about the barriers to entry.