Banned from commenting at Nature | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-03-29

Summary:

"My thanks for Richard Van Noorden for drawing my attention to his new piece Open access: The true cost of science publishing in Nature. I wrote a detailed comment on this article, but when I went to post it, I was told 'This account has been banned from commenting due to posting of comments classified as inappropriate or other violations of our Terms of Service'  This news to me. No-one at Nature thought to tell me, or anything. Their system said nothing about when I logged in, nor when I started entering my comment. Just waited till I’d finished, then trashed it.  I have no idea why I am banned. How can I have, when I’ve never received any notification? I can only assume it’s for posting opinions that are at odds with what NPG would prefer we all thought — at least, in the absence of any actual data, that’s the best hypothesis I can come up with. Update 40 minutes later: turns out it was a glitch in the spam-filter. Richard got it fixed, and my comment is now up on the article.  Listen up, Nature Publishing Group: you will never get meaningful dialogue in your comments if you silently ban everyone who expresses a non-party-line opinion random people for no discernable reason. You should be aspiring to be a hub of civilised discourse on these important issues, not an echo-chamber. (If you want that, you can just go and read The Scholarly Kitchen.)  Anyway: I am paranoid enough that I copied my comment before submitting it — I’ve been screwed in too many ways by too many commenting systems to trust anything but my own. So here is that comment, stripped of its context but still IMHO important.Perhaps someone who has not been banned from commenting at Nature could post it for me?"

Link:

http://svpow.com/2013/03/28/banned-from-commenting-at-nature/

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oa.new oa.npg oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.policies oa.comment

Date tagged:

03/29/2013, 19:27

Date published:

03/29/2013, 15:26