On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > On 6/29/15, 4:15 PM, "shaposh...@gmail.com on behalf of Roman Shaposhnik" > <shaposh...@gmail.com on behalf of ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: >>>Every event, on any topic, of any size, that I have ever been affiliated >>> with, has had this same situation. No matter what you do, half the >>>papers >>> will be submitted in the last week of the CFP. Nobody likes it, but it's >>> reality. >> >>Exactly! But it makes me curious: has anybody ever tried to "gamify" >>successfully >>against this sad trend? > > It is human nature. The word “procrastination” has the shortest > definition in most dictionaries because the editors only get around to it > at the last minute ;-)
Sure, but that's why I said -- gamify it! E.g. if a CFP had a random drawing of something tangible (with a probability function sloping to zero the closer it gets to CFP closure) I, personally, would be more than compelled to submit way ahed of the deadline. Stuff like that. Thanks, Roman.
