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What is it like to attend a predatory conference? (www.nature.com)

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How does one get into a situation where they attend a predatory conference? Isn’t it not that difficult to know what the big conferences are in your field?

[–] outstanding_bond@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

In my experience, there are some niche conferences that have no name recognition, but are amazing. A lot of people haven’t heard of the Gordon conferences, and some of the other top ones in my field are open source package user group meetings and company hosted conferences, which could easily appear low-value at first glance.

The 10K+ attendee conferences have lots of name recognition, but I found them to be effectively useless for accomplishing any goal (they’re not even that great for networking), and they could easily be a series of recordings for what you get.

So, I think it’s reasonable for folks to roll the dice on some conferences, because some of them are really hidden gems (and if they suck you can always audible it to a free vacation).

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