[TYPES] Two-tier reviewing process

[Vijay Saraswat]

Rajeev Alur wrote:
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>   
> One proposal to fix this is to enforce a rule such as:
> You can be a co-author on at most 2 submissions to  top-tier SIGPLAN
> sponsored conferences in a given calendar year.
> Such a rule would put some burden on authors to submit their best work 
> to conferences,
> and reviewing would be less onerous and better.
>   
Hi Rajeev --

The problem of too many poor papers circulating is definitely real. But 
this seems like a particularly bad way to fix this -- people can be 
involved in many different lines of work that come to fruition in the 
same year, a professor is guiding many students, a person is 
contributing code to many systems etc.

Here is an alternate suggestion picking up on your observation that 
currently there is no cost of submission.

The only currency relevant is reputation.

What if each of the SIGPLAN conferences also published a tally of who 
submitted how many paper(*). This would make public the knowledge that A 
submitted X papers and got Y accepted this year. I think just the social 
stigma associated with submitting 20 papers and getting 2 accepted would 
keep people from submitting too many papers :-).

(*) The conference should not publish any other information about 
rejected papers, e.g. title of submitted paper, who co-authored with who 
etc.