Interesting, I was thinking the opposite! I was thinking, “There’s so many interesting specific suggestions in this paper and people are just caught up on whether or not they like diversity initiatives generally and what they think of the tone on this paper, how annoying.”
I agree it would have been better to have this as two posts – I’m personally finding it difficult to respond to either the paper or the post, because when I focus on one I feel like I’m ignoring important points in the other.
That said, the fact that both are being discussed in a single post is down to the authors, not the commenters. I think it’s reasonable for any given commenter to focus on one without justifying why they’re neglecting the other.
Interesting, I was thinking the opposite! I was thinking, “There’s so many interesting specific suggestions in this paper and people are just caught up on whether or not they like diversity initiatives generally and what they think of the tone on this paper, how annoying.”
I just mean this could have been two posts—one about the paper and one about the experience of publishing the paper. Both would be very valuable.
I agree it would have been better to have this as two posts – I’m personally finding it difficult to respond to either the paper or the post, because when I focus on one I feel like I’m ignoring important points in the other.
That said, the fact that both are being discussed in a single post is down to the authors, not the commenters. I think it’s reasonable for any given commenter to focus on one without justifying why they’re neglecting the other.
Yeah I agree. I disagree with most of the paper, but I find the claims about pressures not to publish criticism troubling.
Completely agree!