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Re:Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf] by TaylorAlexander on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:59AM (#33591289)
There’s no comments here, so I found some background:

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam

Re:Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf] by ObiWanFrijoles on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:02AM (#33591307)
The paper was hilarious in itself. The context makes it even more interesting.
Re:Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf] by Grimburger on Monday November 14, 2022 @05:43AM (#33592310)
For the lazy:

> The journal, despite its distinguished name, is a predatory open-access journal, as noted by io9. These sorts of low-quality journals spam thousands of scientists, offering to publish their work for a fee.

> In 2005, computer scientists David Mazières and Eddie Kohler created this highly profane ten-page paper as a joke, to send in replying to unwanted conference invitations. It literally just contains that seven-word phrase over and over, along with a nice flow chart and scatter-plot graph

> According to the blog Scholarly Open Access, this PDF made the rounds, and an Australian computer scientist named Peter Vamplew sent it to the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology in response to spam from the journal. Apparently, he thought the editors might simply open and read it.

> Instead, they automatically accepted the paper — with an anonymous reviewer rating it as "excellent" — and requested a fee of $150.

Re:Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf] by blitzar on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:27AM (#33592608)
> and requested a fee of $150.

Did they pay? They really should have to get it published

"Correction: This article previously said the article was published by the journal. It was only accepted, because the author didn't want to pay $150."