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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.