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by learnalist 5986 days ago
Further to this point.

I have a few friends in different fields of research and in the biotech field. I sent them a link from sciencedaily, after thanking me for the link. They politely informed me that sciencedaily is not a worth while publication and therefore deem the information from it not so exciting / important.

You could say they are being snobbish maybe even elitist. But as mentioned in the comments, this is not the first time a post to there has had words like "misleading" etc.

What if we had a peer review, prestigious website where you could submit your articles for publishing in the IT world?

Equally, does "snobbishness" exist already in peer review sites for the IT world already?

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If anything I would expect two crowds to form, the larger of which being an "anti-snob" crowd that says, "If it wasn't on a developer's personal blog, it isn't worth reading!"