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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Ah, arXiv

[mbone]

You do know that some people are blocked from arXiv, and at least in some cases there is no obvious reason why (and no real appeal)? (Opponents of string theory, for example, seem to get this, or at least complain about this, fairly often.) I have seen this in action, it is real and it is capricious.

I do not think that arXiv is suitable for a filter for a public meeting as long as its internal filtering is opaque in this fashion.

Re:Ah, arXiv

[fph il quozientatore]

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?