Perhaps this is an issue in journal based publishing, I don't know. In CS, we publish in conferences. Conferences don't have editors in the sense that journals

Perhaps this is an issue in journal based publishing, I don't know. In CS, we publish in conferences. Conferences don't have editors in the sense that journals have. So there's no initial filtering step. Anyone can submit, and anything that gets submitted will be read by at least 3 or 4 reviewers (who don't get to see the author list). Anyone who does get to see the author list (e.g. the program committee chair) is not involved in any decision making about specific papers unless there is a very serious violation of some kind (which in practice happens very, very infrequently).