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I see increasing trends in harsh/very harsh/extremely harsh reviews in @netscisociety and @complsys @CompSysSoc conferences, let's not even mention papers related to such fields. This is worrying for several reasons and, as a community, we should work all together to fix it 1/
Criticism & skepticism are two pillars of scientific progress. However, remember that only their constructive side should be used.
Report on paper A *cannot* contain a sentence like 'this is much better than paper B from similar authors', since paper A is under review, not B 2/
Report on paper A *cannot* contain a sentence like 'this is much better than paper B from similar authors', since paper A is under review, not B 2/
Other reviews are built with the only sake of being harmful, degrading the value of a piece of work w/o using scientific arguments. Friends & colleagues: such papers are led by young PhDs and postdocs, and you are giving the worst example of academic behavior this way. Why? 3/
Our communities will survive ONLY if the young generation of enthusiastic researchers we have *now* will continue to work in our community. Bullying their papers w/o reason or scientific arguments & constructive objections/comments will push them towards other communities. 4/
If we really want that our community won't disintegrate in 5-10y from now, and we don't want to just live in our bubble, we should take actions. It's not complicated: for each review you write think that your son, your friend or your closest PhD student is on the other side 5/
Your reviews should be scientific comments, not personal ones, but maybe thinking that there is someone you like on the other side of your anonymity, might help you to be more professional.
I invite @Po_CSS @cosnet_bifi & chapter's coordinators like me @HirokiSayama et al to 6/
I invite @Po_CSS @cosnet_bifi & chapter's coordinators like me @HirokiSayama et al to 6/
start thinking about ways to act against bully and harsh reviews, eg flagging abuses to senior PC members and withdrawing flagged reviews which are confirmed to be non-scientific. Let's stop the #scitrolls to favor constructive criticism. 7/7
