Comment by colah3
9 years ago
Yep, we're still clarifying our policies. If you have questions, please email us!
(Distill needs to be extra careful about a lot of this stuff because we're trying to build legitimacy for a kind of work that many people are inclined to not treat as academic contributions. So on some things, like being a primary publication, we may end up taking a more defensive posture than we would in an ideal world.)
I wish all the best to this wonderful initiative! (As a side note, my co-advisor dreamt about this style of communication in science (though, in physics): https://physicsnapkins.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/a-personal-d...)
I totally understand that you need to be set high reference level at the very beginning, even if at the cost of being a bit "conservative" (I am not sure if the best word here).