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Why would exposing the names of the reviewers/conferences do more harm than good? We want to discourage such behavior don't we.

• sfink 5y ago
  Because of the strong tendency to scapegoat the specific people named, drive them out of academia, and then celebrate victory while things continue in exactly the same way. (Ok, not exactly -- it improves for a while, people get sneakier, and then it continues in exactly the same way.) Chipping off the tip of an iceberg isn't a good long term strategy.
  • avaldes 5y ago
    Why wouldn't be a good thing for academia drive out unethical actors?
    • robertlagrant 5y ago
      The topic is mechanisms being abused. Can the compensating mechanism you're proposing also be abused?
    • schwede 5y ago
      Too much focus on the individuals and not enough focus on the systematic problem, at least according to the author.