[Air-L] think of the audience

[Barry Wellman]

We do need some sort of quality control, because too much open vagueness 
is more likely to lead to unthought-through papers than exciting 
innovative ones. A public presentation is not the place to get advice on a 
diss. proposal -- you can do that in private or set up birds of a feather 
roundtables. But it is unfair to subject an audience to such stuff. This 
has been a problem with AoIR since the first Kansas meeting and one reason 
I have cut back on my attendance.

While I would kvell to hear anything Terri Senft had to say about 
anything.
Alas, we are all not Terri.

YMMV
   Barry Wellman
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