¡El Scrumpo! · @Scrumpmonkey
2nd Nov 2014 from TwitLonger
Serious Question to DiGRA: Have you Ever been through the Peer Review Process?
From my interactions with DiGRA members and from their statements and apparent offense take to their ideas being picked apart i seems clear to me that you have no.
I'm aware of what the peer review process involves and it's pretty much identical to what Sargon is doing to your work. I've seen it. It's like being thrown to the wolves. The purpose of peer review is to take your ideas apart and look for any weakness, contraction, oversight or mistake. If you think Sargon and a group of critically thinking gamers is harsh, i seriously doubt you have the intellectual grit for the rigors peer review process. Peer Review is a systematic attempt to discredit your ideas to test their validity and merit and out of that the good ideas will be kept and the faulty ones savaged by a group of your peers.
That. Is. THE. POINT. If you are offended by people trying to harshly critique your ideas and conclusions you don't belong in academia. Full stop. It's standard practice. If you don't want your often postmodern conjecture to be proven wrong, don't write it and try and pass it off as legitimate research and academic canon. You hate peer review because your ideas lack the merit to stand up to such a test and your horror at someone trying to counter your work is frankly anti intellectual. Your ideas inform people but they have not been properly tested. They led legitimacy to ideas that games are harmful and cause sexism and violence spouted recently in the media. Ideas and studdies that HAVE gone through peer review before and been found bankrupt.
Ideas are tested in the fires of debate and discourse. That is the way science and the purist of fact and reason has worked since antiquity. I've said it before: if you tried these methods and ideas in hard science you would find yourselves out on the street in minutes. The fact people get paid to sit back and tell people who peer review is "slowing them down" boggles my mind. As far as I'm concerned your research positions and jobs don't have a right to exist based on the level and quality of output you have produced. It is shockingly woeful.
Signed. Pretty much every STEM field.