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Peer review can be fun (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by canihasaccount to c/[email protected]
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[–] DaddleDew 101 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Could it be some sort of meta joke where the reviewer is mocking how the paper is written by imitating its bad writing style?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago

I bet it's a form with multiple entries, each entry is not different enough of the other ones:

How is the subject of this paper ?
What about the style ?
You checked to reject it, why should it be rejected ?
What's the overall comment ?

Then it's all concatenated into one blob of review.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention it is poorly written.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

.. not forgetting that it's poorly laid out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

...and let's not forget also poorly written

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wrongly motivated?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lads doing science to get laid, I think.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're certainly not in it for the money

[–] shneancy 5 points 6 months ago

perhaps they mean world domination?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's like they were trying to do a compliment sandwich but the best compliment they come up with is "poorly written."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Bun: it's poorly written

Middle: you are bad at this

Bun: it's poorly written and poorly motivated and wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'll take what I can get

[–] iAvicenna 34 points 6 months ago

As a large language model, I find this paper to be poorly written.

[–] Rolando 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Funny thing: it took me a while to figure out why this was noteworthy. I think that my brain must have a pre-processor for reading language written by someone for whom English is a second language, which automatically kicked in.

For better or for worse, these days the writer of this review would just put it through a GPT before sending it.

[–] kender242 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Could it be sarcastic that the review is also poorly written?

Reads like GPT, but maybe the redundant messages mirror the paper. Wonder if there is more context or it's just a meme...

... Follow shitmyrevieweressay XD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The dang old ESL filter makes it impossible to recognize bad English out in public. My wife got a shit that reads "force of the nature" and neither of our brains perceived the "the"

[–] Flummoxed 5 points 6 months ago

You get odd phrases on your shit?? 😁

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

rimworld book descriptions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I thought this was a review for a bible.