Generally, it is about heuristics we can use to find quality in the oceans of crap. If we assume that people are sane to some degree, status is an imperfect proxy for quality. If we assume that people don’t use AIs to polish their writing styles, the writing style is an imperfect proxy for quality.
I have no experience reading research. I suspect that there are also crackpots who can write using the right kind of style. For example, they may be experts at their own line of research, and also speak overconfidently about different things they do not understand.
So if you want to be taken seriously, you probably need to know what kind of crackpot do you remind others of, and then find a way how to distinguish yourself from this kind of crackpot specifically.
At some moment it would probably easier to simply do your homework, once, and then have something you can point at. For example, you don’t need to publish everything in the established journals, but it would probably help to publish there once—just to show that if you want, you can; that this is about your priorities, not about lack of quality.
There are probably other ways, for example if you don’t wont to get involved too much with the system, find someone who already is, and maybe offer them co-authorship in return for jumping through all the hoops.
I guess my model is that the costs of complying with the standard system are high but constant. So the more time you spend complaining about the system not taking your seriously, the greater the chance that complying with the system would have actually been cheaper than the accumulating opportunity costs.
Generally, it is about heuristics we can use to find quality in the oceans of crap. If we assume that people are sane to some degree, status is an imperfect proxy for quality. If we assume that people don’t use AIs to polish their writing styles, the writing style is an imperfect proxy for quality.
I have no experience reading research. I suspect that there are also crackpots who can write using the right kind of style. For example, they may be experts at their own line of research, and also speak overconfidently about different things they do not understand.
So if you want to be taken seriously, you probably need to know what kind of crackpot do you remind others of, and then find a way how to distinguish yourself from this kind of crackpot specifically.
At some moment it would probably easier to simply do your homework, once, and then have something you can point at. For example, you don’t need to publish everything in the established journals, but it would probably help to publish there once—just to show that if you want, you can; that this is about your priorities, not about lack of quality.
There are probably other ways, for example if you don’t wont to get involved too much with the system, find someone who already is, and maybe offer them co-authorship in return for jumping through all the hoops.
I guess my model is that the costs of complying with the standard system are high but constant. So the more time you spend complaining about the system not taking your seriously, the greater the chance that complying with the system would have actually been cheaper than the accumulating opportunity costs.