[throwawaygh]

I hate publishers as much as the next guy, but playing the twitter high-school popularity game is the last thing I want to do with my time, and IMO it's leading to the click-baitification of research in AI. This year there was even an instance of literal ASTs being hailed by deep learning hoards as some amazing new idea.

If science gets attention according to its level of twitter amplification, then scientific publishing is going to start looking a lot like journalism. That's already happening. Ask journalists how their search for truth is going.

[AndrewGYork]

As opposed to the traditional publishing high-school popularity game? I'm partially joking, but traditional publishing is very much a popularity contest. You're free to ignore this, but I don't recommend it.

My personal experience (twelve years of traditional publishing followed by five years of DIY publishing) is that I spend substantially less of my time on publishing/dissemination, have higher impact, and produce higher quality work. You should give it a try!