Experiment On Public Pre-reviewing and Discussion of Workshop Paper Submissions (reddit.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The ADAPT workshop (6th international workshop on adaptive, self-tuning computing systems) is trying a new publication model: all papers have been submitted via Arxiv, are now publicly discussed via Reddit, and will then be selected by a Program Committee for a presentation at the workshop. The idea is to speed up dissemination of novel ideas while making reviews more fair and letting the authors actively engage in discussions, defend their techniques, fix mistakes and eventually improve their open articles.

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Re:Ah, arXiv

[Anonymous Coward]

I have never heard of this, and I am interested. Can you name an example of a respectable scientist (not a "fringe" controversial person, I mean) who has been banned?

Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson had this happen to him. He posted a record of his interactions with the arXiv moderators at

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/articles/arxiv_correspondence.html

Often the people who get their papers rejected by arXiv are just ordinary researchers who are trying to post ordinary papers. One such example is the following.

http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2013/12/arxivs-police