Lisa, Thanks for the information about IJOC. From what you write, it appears that public reviews of the articles in IJOC are not anonymous. There is no reason for this, and it would obviously have a dampening effect on the comments of untenured folk. You ask why articles should be ranked, but they already are, at least in terms of the rankings of the journals they're in. Those rankings are not only made but also used to great consequence; for instance, not a few schools make tenure decisions based on the ranking of the journals in which a scholars articles are published. Now, as for my suggestion that all submissions be made available for public review, regardless of the editorial boards decision about it. I did not mean to suggest that authors should be forced to have their papers published even if rejected by the official reviewers. I've done enough reviewing to know that there's a lot of dreck out there that their authors should be saved from being associated with. As more my "scrap heap" comment, to whom is it insulting? In any case, I can assure you its far more insulting to be relegated to the scrap heap for no good reason.
Although the current, traditional model may eventually collapse under pressure, the consumerist, populist model isn't the answer
Again, this is a false dichotomy. --Christian Nelson