<p>First off, I think this idea could be woven effectively into the site in various ways, and I agree it could be a great and valuable resource to both this community and to the general public. So, the question becomes appropriate implementation of such a task.</p>

<p>While it could be woven directly into the Q/A format of the site, I don't believe <em>per se</em> this is the best venue for such a discussion for a few reasons;</p>

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<li>The question needs to be formulated in such a way that it fits within the purview of the site. It's possible, but it may entail asking several questions to limit the scope within reason for one question.</li>
<li>I believe a satisfying response would be very large in scope compared to normal questions.</li>
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<p>For these reasons, I think our blog is a potentially more appropriate venue for such an endeavor. But, the problem so far with the blog is getting more community involvement in the creation/editing of posts. That venue is available though if you personally want to take the initiative.</p>

<p>When writing about any polarizing topic one needs to choose their words very wisely, so it may be difficult to recruit authors for such a task (in any form). It is on your shoulder's so to speak to start the task. Given your standing in the community and quality of your questions/answers I have no doubt you could accomplish such a task, but IMO you shouldn't assume  anyone else in the community will write a satisfying response given the nature and scope of what you are asking.</p>

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<p>In reply to @Iterator's comments. Just to reiterate, the main goal of my answer was to suggest that to get such a project underway it will likely need to be undertaken in large part by yourself. </p>

<p>On a more opinionated manner, I believe it could be woven into several questions on the site, although offhand I don't particularly like the prospect. It may be a useful hueristic for a reviewer to dichotomize any particular project into several smaller components, but I'm not sure if it is a good idea to evaluate any particular small slice of some work <em>in absentia</em> of the other components of the research methodology. This is in addition to the fact that you have to constrain the original questions in such a way to fit within the scope of the site to begin with. Again I think it could be done, but I think it is better/easier just to write one all-inclusive opinion piece on the blog.</p>

<p>That being said if your the one undertaking the project you have the academic freedom to pursue it in anyway you want. I have faith given your contributions here and on SO that you have enough understanding of the nature of the sites to attempt such a project.</p>

<p>As far as how the blog works, so far basically we have published pretty much whatever we feel like! We have attempted a few thematic type series of posts, but participation has been too scarce to keep such contributions sustainable. <strong>Invitations are open to any member of the community to post a contribution to the blog if they want to.</strong> </p>

<p>IMO the blog is an excellent platform for things that don't quite fit into the Q/A of the site. My recent post on tables started as an answer to the site, then I realized it was just a pain to say what I wanted to say that directly answered the question. So instead of not saying what I wanted to say to fit within the scope of the site, I wrote a blog post. <strong>I think it is a bad idea to change the question you want an answer to just to fit within the status quo of the Q/A site.</strong></p>
