I wonder if some perceived vicious criticism stems from cultural differences. 1/2
"that doesn't seem OK" is acceptable to me but nothing with "wrong" in it imho. Case in point http://2016.pyconuk.org/news/20160919-coc/ …
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Calling s.o. terrorist is def behind any line. To me "it's wrong" as a factual statement is OK. But I guess not to all.
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“You’re doing it wrong” can be helpful and welcome - privately. But not shouted out at a speaker during a talk
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sure the context is not private here though and the response was "you're a terrorist". Oh, science.

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IMHO criticism shld be private if possible. But with highly cited papers, public needs to know about any errors.
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so for our against open peer review?

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Totally for! But being nice is a matter of politeness. No need to publicly destroy ERCs' work, for example.
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I'm undecided on former
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