In connection with an earlier post, where I strongly defended the current format for Read Papers at the Royal Statistical Society, I am urging all members of the Society to reply to the consultation launched by the Society in order to oppose (if they feel like me!) the proposed change! Moving to Read Papers that are handled by the regular editor(s) of Series B (or even by a special editor) would be the “kiss of death” for the Read Papers series… Indeed, it would turn Read Papers into discussion papers already found in other journals like Statistical Science or Bayesian Analysis, while loosing the extended editorship through the involvement of the Research Committee. To imagine that reducing the amount of attention paid to the paper would lead to “more read papers on a wider range of topics” is wishful thinking in my opinion, because it would increase the variability in the quality of the Read Papers…