[godelski]

There's a double edged sword here. Currently CVPR has a social media ban that is extremely strict. I've definitely been seeing Twitter act differently than it normally does around this so we'll see if it works. But why this matters here is that there's an incredibly strong correlation between the popularity of the lab, the amount of eyes that can read the preprint (with authors names), and acceptance at top conferences (i.e. CVPR). I often say that double blind only exists for small fries. But even still, big labs will get more likes from twitter accounts that post arxiv papers. There are plenty of means to bypass this social media ban.

But even from this experiment we can see that there are people actively trying the fix the situation. Likely naive, but something is better than nothing. I wish there would be more push for ACs and Meta Reviewers having the highest standards, but this is where we are.

I am totally for us abandoning journals and conferences and just publishing to arxiv and open review. This is exactly what I would do if I was independently wealthy and could research without the constraints that I am in. But we also need to recognize the issues with this and that popularity and outreach ability greatly affect perceptions of quality of the paper. That this is not meritocratic.