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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How can we know the over-arching theme and conclusion of this paper without seeing it in it's entirety?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can read it here https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Advanced_Computer_Technology

In 2005, two scientists, David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, wrote a paper titled Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List and submitted it to WMSCI 2005 (the 9th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics), in protest of the conference's notoriety for its spamming and lax standards for paper acceptance. The paper consisted essentially only of the sentence "Get me off your fucking mailing list" repeated many times, sometimes as illustrations or diagrams.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn't say.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It does:

…the paper was reviewed, and its appropriateness for the journal's publishing criteria was rated as "excellent" by the journal's peer-review process. It was accepted for publication with minor editorial changes. The paper was not actually published, as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 article processing charge. This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The paper was not actually published, as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 article processing charge

At first I was like "come on! Do it for the bit!", but then I remembered that, far from having the "make a Broadway sized song and dance number telling mining mogul Bob Murray to eat shit"* money of Last Week Tonight, scientists tend to be less than extravagant in their capital holdings..

What a way to end the season, though! ❤️😂

*which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2020

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.

Gotta love the "please don't sue us" phrasing there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh, thank you. I stopped reading when it started to talk about someone else 9 years later, I thought it would be some other controversy. I wish he crowdsourced the $150 though. I wonder how many citations it could have gotten...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'll never know because there was no TLDR.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

The pro-tip no one told me before my publication: make a secondary email/alias to use for your publication because the spam will never stop.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This and the chicken presentation are my favourite pieces of academic work https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's fucking brilliant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Really some insightful questions from the audience too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Get

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel that after all the shit I get from Academia.edu and Research Gate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Did you buy this article from Springer for $19.99?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This is a work of art