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Reverse misogyny. Had a man wrote a blog entry about crying due to 'boohoo comments' on the internet would get chastised out of the industry. A woman writes a b
by serf 14y ago
Reverse misogyny. Had a man wrote a blog entry about crying due to 'boohoo comments' on the internet would get chastised out of the industry. A woman writes a blog entry about how her feelings get hurt and everyone with a set of swingers breaks down , puts on their big boy/high moral pants, and makes a grandiose apology (via published blog post, rather than private channels, because the fanbase must be informed lest we reduce our hits per month!)
Is this really a 250+ post thread about someone getting offended on the internet? Want to see an artist get offended about their work? Go check out deviant art.
Open code is inevitably peer reviewed. The development community since the mid 80s has been notorious relaxed, leisurely, casual. No suit, no tie culture. Are you really upset that you received a negative peer review in casual tongue?
Science has a similiar dilemma with peer review causing depression. Science and academia, however, do not have the same casual environment, however, and that is reflected in the peer review. Instead of "My eyes are bleeding", you receive things like "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!" ("Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong!") Is that not rude?
Don't open up your code and you won't receive harsh sentiments from those that read it. Worked for MS.
- michh 14y agoOr, you know, be nice, constructive and positive and encourage people to open up their code. Maybe someone's poorly written tool might save you a days work in the future. Also, there's a difference between peer review and making fun of them/attacking them. If you can't see the difference, I wouldn't want to work with you.
- pekk 14y agoThe story isn't that someone got offended at constructive criticism. For starters, the criticism wasn't constructive or academic, and the criticized thing was just some little tool in a github repo, not an important physics paper, and the reviewers were just assholes, not brilliant assholes. It was just bullying. And this is the story. It's true, of course, that a man would not have this recourse. He's expected to "man up". The legs of this story are that lots of people have this terrible attitude, almost everyone has seen it and it is hurting us a lot.
- serf 14y agoI get that. I understand the criticism that was offered was not constructive other than pointing out : "Hey, look. sed does this too. Waste of time.". My point in quoting Pauli was not to show you that academia stays far away from non-constructive criticism. Quite the opposite. How does "You're not even wrong" help the author of the paper? It doesn't. It's an intentionally low blow meant to make the person reassess their position on the opinion they expounded upon. It's constructive in the fact that "maybe it'll knock some sense into them." I, too, think the authors of the tweets acted in poor form. However, I have stepped back and looked at this for what it is, someone being upset about bullying on the internet. Bullying in a pseudo anonymous information exchange should not be surprising to anyone, nor should anyone take it so personally. No boss is going to hire someone else because you got heckled on the internet, sorry. It'll be because you were lesser qualified than the other applicant.