[oakfr]

The problem is that careful (conference) reviews don’t scale. Large conferences end up suffering from a highly stochastic behavior where excellent work is borderline rejected on a regular basis while mediocre/incorrect work gets accepted every so often. github/arxiv are no silver bullet but offer an interesting alternative (with their own set of challenges, though).

[wolverine876]

Every solution has flaws, as you say. The careful reviews have worked very well - science is one of the great triumphs of humanity.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't look for improvements, of course.