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The full article text is at http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002421 http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.
by seiji 15y ago
The full article text is at http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1002421 http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj... (yay PLoS!) -- read the inline Abstract and Author Summary to get a better description than the sciencedaily spam.
Sadly, nobody can crack the thought process of whoever designed sciencedaily.com (three equal width columns? 10% content and 90% blogvomit?).
- joshu 15y agoblogvomit is a good word.
- sbierwagen 15y agoWhy hasn't sciencedaily.com or physorg been banned from HN yet? Anybody know? Incidentally, I've flagged so many physorg submissions that the flag link has been disabled for my account.
- seiji 15y agoIf it's any consolation, my flag link vanished a long time ago after I went on a "purge all the self-promotional infidels" jihad last year. I consider it a badge of honor to have restricted features but still have a working account. They care enough to limit us, but they don't want us completely gone. I'm torn on the subject of sciencedaily. Without the linkbait-y headline, I doubt this paper would have any attention here. They should turn into a HN-like site with links to articles, then give each link a short (under 100 words) lay person description not just copy/pasted from the article (maybe even with linkbait conclusions). Sometimes you have to bend the truth (i.e. marketing) if you want people to get excited about your work.
- bhousel 15y ago>I consider it a badge of honor to have restricted features but still have a working account. They care enough to limit us, but they don't want us completely gone. Hey, that's a nice way of looking at it.. I lost my flag link during "bitcoin week" last summer.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoI lost mine recently too. I'd been trying to keep the number of political stories down as they very rarely have any useful discussion.
- bconway 15y agoSame! Apparently I took the article submission guidelines too seriously?
- ranit8 15y agoI guess loss of flagging rights might be due to flagging highly upvoted articles. Maybe searching for less popular articles from these spammy sources, and flagging those, would be a viable strategy.
- ricksta 15y agoEver since I upgraded to Lion, a double tab in Safari to zoom into the content part of the text is all it took to avoid the vomit.