Of all the bad things with the academic world, waiting for a conference paper notification is definitely in my top three. Let me explain.
The basic idea is that you find a conference where you would like to publish your work, then follow their paper guidelines and submit according to their strict deadlines. After a couple of months you receive a notification telling you whether your work was accepted or not, and some comments from the reviewers.
The problem is that conferences' chairs don't seem to have the same consideration for your time as they do for theirs. I think it's insulting that they can keep you waiting all day for a notification that never comes, and then two days later either tell you that their reviewers are swamped and that the notification will come at some point in the future, or that they simply forgot to click on the button that submits the notifications. Even worse, you may never receive a notification at all...
They have all the right to accept/reject your paper, but I think it's only fair if they tell you why they did it. You might expect this from shady events, but I've experienced it with A rank conferences, which makes you think if the academic community even takes itself seriously or not.
Maybe it's like in that episode from The Office, where a sadistic candidate explains that he likes to keep people waiting for an answer, because of the slight hopefulness in their voice, the pregnant pause while they wait to hear the response...and then the response.
I don't know, I just wanted to rant about this because I'm still waiting for a notification that was due yesterday...
And after this,
can it last another night?
After all the bad advice
had nothing at all to do with life.
