alt Hacker NewsI want to stick my neck out to say that this has the potential of being very bad for science.
Imagine saying "no" to a researcher with a big social media profile. Imagine 4chan coming at you with style-detection and deanonymization tools simply because their favorite racist or antivaxer got their nonsense rejected and sent their followers after you. And this is not just me feeling this way - quoting myself from a previous comment, and according to the ACL's 2019 survey [1], "female respondents were less likely to support public review than male respondents" and "support for public review inversely correlated with reviewing experience".
A measure that women ~~and inexperienced researchers~~[2] do not support is a measure that favors only those who are already part of the club.
[1] Original here (currently offline): http://acl2019pcblog.fileli.unipi.it/wp-content/uploads/2019..., summary here: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/f/f5/ACL_Reviewing_S...
[2] This part has been correctly pointed out as being wrong.
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Has there been recent developments in the style detection and deanonymization tools you mentioned? I would assume many would not work well given the high usage of LLMs nowadays.
What is the alternative?
Or are you just for creating classes of people that just can't be critiqued in any circumstance?
This kind of sounds like, 'Wont anyone think of the grifters?!'
> Imagine saying "no" to a researcher with a big social media profile
"The identity of the reviewers will remain anonymous, unless they choose otherwise — as happens now."
(Also "support for public review [being] inversely correlated with reviewing experience" means inexperienced reviewers are more likely to support it. Not less.)