Hi Tiago,
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 01:33, Tiago Hori <tiago.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, no one needs to be rude, but some people are. Some people are rude > because they are just stupid, but I like to believe that the vast majority > is rude because they don't know any better. I just think that getting a > thick skin is not synonymous with accepting the rudeness. I try to very hard > (and sometimes fail) not to be rude when reviewing scientific articles for > publications for example, but I had to learn to get a thick skin, cause more > often than not the reviews I get are just nasty! :) I'm not so sure about this last point. Yes there are nasty scientific reviewers out there and the reason is that no one is taught to review nicely. They've learned to be nasty either from someone they worked with or, more than likely, from someone else who was nasty to them. Perhaps people in the scientific community and here on this list should grow a thicker skin...but then one day, things degenerate and get out of hand. And you end up potentially losing good scientists or good Perl programmers...as Shawn quipped, to Python or Ruby. :-) Is that good for Perl? Ok..."for Perl" is an exaggeration. How about, "is it good for this mailing list"? As for the nasty scientific reviewers, IMHO, you should mention it to the editor of the journal. No, you won't get your paper accepted -- that shouldn't be the point. But as long as you have a good argument and are *polite* and *constructive* in your response, the editor might at least take a note of this nasty person and if many complaints come in, s/he will no longer be asked to review. Again, IMHO, it is perhaps better than feeling that being nasty is part of the peer review process and then taking it out on someone else -- a vicious cycle... Ray -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
