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The story isn't that someone got offended at constructive criticism. For starters, the criticism wasn't constructive or academic, and the criticized thing was j
by pekk 14y ago
The 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.