Dan Ports@regehr@mastodon.social @chrisamaphone@hci.social next question: which of these friendship levels require you to declare the person as a conflict on the ASPLOS PC?
chris martens@dan@discuss.systems @regehr@mastodon.social idk about asplos but I was definitely surprised that, when declaring conflicts for the popl paper i submitted last year, “we attended each other’s weddings” was vetoed as criteria!
Dan Ports@chrisamaphone@hci.social @regehr@mastodon.social one year one of the criteria was "would you invite this person to stay in your home?" which forced me to make a lot of difficult decisions about people in the ASPLOS community
Dan Ports@chrisamaphone@hci.social @regehr@mastodon.social but yeah, more generally I am surprised when sometimes "I know this person extremely well" or even "I have talked about the paper under review with this person" are explicitly not conflicts, and sometimes they are
John Regehr@dan@discuss.systems @chrisamaphone@hci.social the whole conflict thing is weird anyway, like are we just pretending I can't have a personal reason for loving or hating a paper just because I last collaborated with one of its authors more than 3 years ago?
Dan Ports@regehr@mastodon.social @chrisamaphone@hci.social there's also the ACM's conflict policy on "Notable personal or professional rivalry/animosity (publicly known or not)"...
John Regehr@dan@discuss.systems @chrisamaphone@hci.social "every rule exists because something happened"