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i was fourth author in a mdpi paper and now i'm drowning in spam please help (fedia.io)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah... And wait until they start spamming you you to review papers for them, or to participate in their Special Issues, or to be a Guest Editor.... Such a shitty publisher, if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tbf i only did analyses for the other group. published paper is a published paper, even with loss of dignity

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are (somewhat) right... Publish or Perish is unfortunately true. Still, if I can avoid them in the future, I will. They look borderline predatory to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they are

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What kind of AI-generated horror is that picture?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

that's Sigma Xi, founder of Sigma Xi Society and he wants you to participate in MDPI Special Issue

fr this image is probably handmade and could be few years old at this point

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the Xinjiang ~~megachad~~ gigachad Josh Brolin.

EDIT: a word (yeah... no kidding)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's photo shop actually, the image has been around a while

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They know a sucker when they see one...