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1. https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37021/why-is-it-bad-to-judge-a-paper-by-citation-count https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37021/why-is

1. https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37021/why-is-it-bad-to-judge-a-paper-by-citation-count https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37021/why-is-it... 2. > it has 5 citations since May 2022 ... I have papers with more cites from this year ... In general people do this kind of thing all the time to get published People also play games to get citations.

almostgotcaught 2y ago
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- immibis 2y ago
  Your original response of "it has few citations so it's unremarkable" was also an NPC response, which I wouldn't have commented on except that you're calling other people's responses NPC responses.
  - almostgotcaught 2y ago
    > Your original response of "it has few citations so it's unremarkable" I'm befuddled. it's right there at the root of this string of comments: my original response was "it's unremarkable because it's niche in a niche area". it's only when someone asked why, i responded with citations and etc. so my original comment was not NPC according to your assessment, and it's only in response to someone reasserting that i had to cite something.
    - pvg 2y ago
      You should take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for some suggestions re: "NPC response".
      - almostgotcaught 2y ago
        The false decorum/hypocrisy is palpable: I don't see how a dismissive/flippant link to a generic stack exchange post is any better in terms "quality response".
        pvg 2y ago
        It's not a personal attack via crappy internet trope, that's the hopefully-now-obvious difference.
        almostgotcaught 2y ago
        Sure but it's just as dismissive. At least my response included more reasoning in addition to the crappy Internet trope.
        pvg 2y ago
        You can't escalate to edgelordery just because you read something as dismissive, at least not on HN. Or in npc-jargon terms, Snowflake Edgelord is not a valid alignment/class combo.

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immibis 2y ago
Your original response of "it has few citations so it's unremarkable" was also an NPC response, which I wouldn't have commented on except that you're calling other people's responses NPC responses.
- almostgotcaught 2y ago
  > Your original response of "it has few citations so it's unremarkable" I'm befuddled. it's right there at the root of this string of comments: my original response was "it's unremarkable because it's niche in a niche area". it's only when someone asked why, i responded with citations and etc. so my original comment was not NPC according to your assessment, and it's only in response to someone reasserting that i had to cite something.
  - pvg 2y ago
    You should take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for some suggestions re: "NPC response".
    - almostgotcaught 2y ago
      The false decorum/hypocrisy is palpable: I don't see how a dismissive/flippant link to a generic stack exchange post is any better in terms "quality response".
      - pvg 2y ago
        It's not a personal attack via crappy internet trope, that's the hopefully-now-obvious difference.
        almostgotcaught 2y ago
        Sure but it's just as dismissive. At least my response included more reasoning in addition to the crappy Internet trope.
        pvg 2y ago
        You can't escalate to edgelordery just because you read something as dismissive, at least not on HN. Or in npc-jargon terms, Snowflake Edgelord is not a valid alignment/class combo.