Hmm, OK, I mean there's always some subjectivity in making that decision. I don't know what this particular case was, but I'll make a more general point w.r.t. the other FAccT paper you mentioned. Anything that could reasonably be accepted to FAccT, AIES, etc as a research paper *should* be fine

It could just have been a mistake! You should appeal if you feel it meets the standard of being research.

My opinion -- it makes a novel contribution to knowledge in a way that many of the position papers that are being submitted to the position paper tracks at major conferences do not. In this case the contribution is through a different kind of analysis than most cs, but clearly research.

A “position paper” is fundamentally different from one that uses methods of research that are standard (in other disciplines). As long as there’s a clear enough connection to cs, it should have a home! I think cs.CY would be completely on target for something like this

This paper on its own is not at all what I would consider a position paper and would fit into cs.CY just fine, though? Although I certainly don’t have any issues with a cs.DH category.

After having more than one SPC at AAAI produce AI-generated “metareviews” (that were actually “reviews” in the first place) my only remaining faith is that by continuing to layer the hierarchy of reviews further the law of large numbers will kick in in some fashion…

I think many people are misreading this as being about all cs arxiv papers, not just review/position papers!

Yup, this. And on the second question, I think it’s when ICML and NeurIPS introduced position paper tracks.

If you’ve had issues of this kind with cs.CY, you should always feel free to appeal. Mods for the categories are, from my experience, both well-trained and read widely in their areas, and understand the norms of relevant disciplines pretty well!

This is also a big part of why there’s suddenly a preponderance of “multiagent systems” — they need modularity for individual tasks within a larger project because otherwise they get muddled by the context window.

Sadly, it will likely be more important than the famous Conservapedia

Thanks for an excellent talk! Great work

Lol, will take your word for it!

Also they do all this bio and chemistry stuff, but no math! Monotonic! Affine!

Although, also, mangos are one of the easiest fruits to cut and eat??

I have to inform you, though, that the flavor and aroma of the Dasheri are unmatched (with citation!) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasheri — my local store has flown in boxes of both the last couple of years :)