> Page limits force you to focus.
This can be solved in better ways, which is, in fact, reviewers. I'm okay with a soft requirement but a standardization is what I'm getting at as being problematic. Some papers are noisy because they should be 3 pages but are 10. Some papers are noisy because they are 10 pages and should be 30. There is no universal rule, and that's what I'm getting at.
> It's also easier to find reviewers for short papers than for long ones.
That's a separate problem that needs to be addressed, but is not easy.
> Some the issues you mention are specific to CS conferences.
Yes, but the author here is CS and we are on a CS focused website. But in general what I said isn't specific to conferences. If conferences are the problem then let's abandon them in favor of good science instead of keeping them around (or turn them into being meetup focused). Certainly the lack of back and forth between authors and reviewers is not a meaningful review process (most author rebuttals are limited to one page and often reviewers are not aligned in critiques). Are we all on the same team (better science) or strictly competing against one another?
