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can you expand? i know the clique, but at least for the specific work i follow, the work isn't bad recently. of course, nothing surprises me.

• pbzcnepu 6y ago
  it isn't always that the work is bad, it's just the review process for getting in has always seemed to be easier for people with the right connections. Not necessarily in an overt conspiratorial way like the recent allegations either. The reason people have latched on to the current set of allegations is there seems to be actual concrete proof of misconduct that can be acted on.
  • ialsodoeestuff 6y ago
    > it's just the review process for getting in has always seemed to be easier for people with the right connections What is this insinuation based on? Do you have data on how many papers by "people with the right connections" are rejected, for example?
    • idoeestuff 6y ago
      i think this is just anecdotal; this person is clearly in the community. i'm not sure this data is useful, because we'd disagree on "people with the right connections".
    • pbzcnepu 6y ago
      it's anecdotal. another anecdote, when first trying to raise awareness of the issue, when mentioning it to members of the community I never got the response "wow, how could this happen in computer architecture?" rather the response tended to be "wow, I can't believe it finally got bad enough that a student died"
      • ialsodoeestuff 6y ago
        Because these anecdotes are unsubstantiated, they can come across as sour grapes, which I think damages your good cause of exposing the serious misconduct for which there's actual evidence.