{"id":5053,"date":"2011-08-18T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2011-08-18T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:04:39","slug":"the-first-scirate-flame-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/08\/18\/the-first-scirate-flame-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The first SciRate flame war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s not a war, but it is at least a skirmish.<br \/>\nThe first shot was fired by\u00a0a pseudonymous user named\u00a0gray, who apparently has never scited any papers before and just arrived to bash an author of <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1108.3270\">this paper<\/a> for using a recommendation engine to&#8230; cue the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw\">dramatic music<\/a>&#8230; <em>recommend his own paper!<\/em><br \/>\nIn an effort to stem this and future carnage, I&#8217;m taking to the quantum pontiff bully pulpit. This is probably better suited for the SciRate blog, but Dave didn&#8217;t give me the keys to that one.<br \/>\nSince it wasn&#8217;t obvious to everyone: SciRate is not a place for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troll_(Internet)\">trolls<\/a> to incite <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flaming_(Internet)\">flame wars<\/a>. Use the comments section of this post if you want to do that. (Kidding.) Comments on SciRate should have reasonable scientific merit, such as (at minimum) recommending a paper that was overlooked in the references, or (better) posting questions, clarifications, additional insights, etc. As an example, look at some of the excellent substantive comments left by prolific scirater Matt Hastings, or this discussion.<br \/>\nNor is SciRate the place for insipid dull self-promotional comments and\/or gibberish.<br \/>\nNow to make things fun, let&#8217;s have a debate in the comments section about the relative merits of introducing comment moderation on SciRate. Who is for it, who is against it, and what are the pros and cons? And who volunteers to do the moderating?<br \/>\nAs for &#8220;gray&#8221; or any other troll out there: if you want to atone for your sins, my quantum confessional booth is always open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s not a war, but it is at least a skirmish. The first shot was fired by\u00a0a pseudonymous user named\u00a0gray, who apparently has never scited any papers before and just arrived to bash an author of this paper for using a recommendation engine to&#8230; cue the\u00a0dramatic music&#8230; recommend his own paper! In an effort &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2011\/08\/18\/the-first-scirate-flame-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The first SciRate flame war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,57,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-poll","category-scirate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}