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Comment Poor reviews (Score 1) 135

As the program chair of a small conference for a number of years I sent out for three reviews about 50 papers per conference. I would say that such bad reviews (Reviewer 2) were rare and resulted in my leaving such reviewers off the next conference reviewer list and NOT passing such reviews to the author. FYI, having received such bad reviews myself, I understand they exist and are harmful. What I found more difficult is the number of reviews that just checked the boxes (accept/reject, relevant or not, requires editing, etc.) and provided little or no comment. More than 80% of the reviews we received were like this.

Comment Resignation from the Board of SFBayISOC (Score 1) 70

As a founding member (2008) of the SFBayISOC chapter I have worked (along with many many others) to build world-wide chapter based support of the goals of ISOC in the hope that ISOC would be a reliable super-national organization worthy of "running the Internet". Sadly, I have watched over the years as more and more centrist management of ISOC has listened less and less to the interests and concerns of the world-wide chapters and members. The purchase of the .org registry (announced to the members the same as to the public) is a culmination of this centrist, now apparently selfish, management approach. The non-discussed and non-transparent sale of the .org registry raises my concerns about nefarious actions associated with this transaction. This requires me to resign from the board of SFBayISOC. My resignation in no way reflects on the actions of the SFBayISOC or any of the other chapters and members world-wide. All give their time and effort in support of running the Internet. I wish them more success than I have reason to expect. Ken Krechmer

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