[Majromax]

> Many times it is very difficult to “get into” a new field if you don’t have an author known by the editors.

Although there's plenty of critique to go around about the review system, machine learning here typically uses double-blind peer review for the major conferences. That blinding is often imperfect (e.g. if a paper very obviously uses a dataset or cluster proprietary to a major company), but it's not precise enough to reject a paper based on the author being an unknown.