@supersquirrel I agree completely. The intent, setup, participation (including springer nature and everyone who publishes there), isn't "dumb" though.
It's malicious, evil, negligent or whatever you want to call it.
I dislike "stupid" because it leaves that room for innocent mistakes and unintentional behavior.
People didn't care for ethical standards and this is the outcome.
@HiddenLayer555 @yogthos
Someone asked me to do a minimal but fully working prototype of... a docker hosted store front? It was apparently not very good, but the startup was kind enough to tell me why and I learned a lot. It did work, but I shoved entire python objects into sqlite and that just worked.
Ultimately I don't know if it was what they wanted, they fixed three things and used it or if it was truly not good enough.