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Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by chasil on Friday August 26, 2022 @11:29AM (#32608785)
I have never pursued this type of publication, but why on earth does an "acceptance rate" even exist for these (journal or conference) publications?

Why not publish them all? Endorse those that are selected, add commentary to those with which there is disagreement, but is a batch inclusion of them all so technically difficult?

Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by PeterisP on Saturday August 27, 2022 @06:15AM (#32617515)
The purpose of a journal is to be read, the purpose of a conference is to be heard, and they should be optimized for the desires of the audience, not the desires of the authors.

A journal or conference that publishes everything is useless to its audience, which expects significant curation and filtering to pare down the incoming firehose to something that (a) fits a specific topic and (b) has a filter for quality and (c) pick the most interesting ones out of all the far-too-many decent papers that fit the first two criteria.

There's no problem to publish them all somewhere, that's being done on e.g. arXiv, pretty much every recent useful CS paper is there as well, often before being published in a "proper venue" - but a "publish everything" service is not enough, people do want to read more selective sources instead of trying to skim everything that's posted on arXiv.

Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by ghaff on Friday August 26, 2022 @11:59AM (#32609120)
Because there is an implied stamp of approval for publications.

These days nothing is keeping people from publishing elsewhere if they want to.

Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by chasil on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:28PM (#32609506)
If the organization is receiving public funds of any kind, then they should be required to (electronically) publish all submissions unless the authors withdraw.

There has been quite enough censorship and paywalling of research that my taxes fund.

Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by bee_rider on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:00PM (#32610741)
The point of a journal is not for people to express their feelings, but to provide researchers with a collection of papers that are, at least, mostly, not garbage. Journals publish the work of others and farm out the review process to others, their only real functionality is that of a gatekeeper.

Since a good chunk of researchers are funded in part by the government, I guess most journals would end up having to follow this "publish everything" requirement (money is fungible and some of every grant goes to administrative overhead, so you could argue anything any most universities touch is funded in part by the government).

Most publishers publish multiple journals, though, so I guess they could follow your rule as long as they were allowed to open up the, for example, "IEEE Journal of Perpetual Motion Machines And Straightforward Proofs That P=NP."

Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by dr_hooo on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:15PM (#32611571)
You are likely not aware of just how much crap gets submitted for any given conference/journal.
Re:The culture of rejection in computer science publications by sgt101 on Friday August 26, 2022 @03:09PM (#32611486)
The bullshit will wash over everything though - there are lots of people out there that are not acting in good faith (ie. Russians) and they will use your suggestion to claim status for all sorts of wickedness.