Contribute a reading, or reply to one
The forum publishes named contributions to the framework and named replies to those contributions. It publishes disagreement on the same terms as agreement, and in the same place.
There is no submission form and no account to create. Contributions arrive by email, are read by a person, and are published under your name with your own copyright retained. Nothing here is moderated by popularity, because nothing here is counted.
A contribution carries five things
- Your name, and an affiliation where one exists. Affiliation is omitted where there is none and never invented. Anonymous house voice is reserved for framework definitions alone.
- The claim, in one sentence. If it cannot be put in a sentence, the argument is probably two arguments.
- The argument. Roughly 600 to 1,500 words is the usual shape, though a precise short objection is worth more than a long essay around it.
- The limit, stated in the same paragraph as the claim. Where evidence is thin, say how thin. Where a number is contested, name who contests it.
- Which function it concerns, 01 to 05, or the framework as a whole.
Send it as plain text, Markdown or a document, whichever you already have. The forum will set it in its own type. Do not spend an evening on formatting.
The process, such as it is
| Stage | What it means |
|---|---|
| 01 | Every submission is read and answered by the editor. Where a contribution is not published, the reason is given. |
| 02 | Editing is for clarity and house punctuation only. Nothing that changes your argument happens without your agreement. |
| 03 | Publication carries your name, your affiliation, the date and a visible route to reply. |
| 04 | Replies appear beside the contribution they answer, marked by a teal rule, with their own byline and date. They are never collapsed behind a control and never sorted by popularity. |
| 05 | Where a contribution changes a framework definition, the change is logged and the previous version stays reachable. |
Two standing refusals
- Verdicts on publications. No scores, no rankings, no trust marks, no lists of outlets to avoid. The forum describes conditions and methods, and a contribution that issues grades is declined however well argued it is.
- Unattributable argument. A named claim can be answered. An unnamed one asks the reader to trust a stranger's good intentions, which is the habit this framework exists to examine.
Contributors keep their own copyright and grant the forum the right to publish. Framework text and figures are CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Write to the editor
Guido van Nispen edits the framework and answers the correspondence.