i was fourth author in a mdpi paper and now i'm drowning in spam please help

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Yeah... And wait until they start spamming you you to review papers for them, or to participate in their Special Issues, or to be a Guest Editor.... Such a shitty publisher, if you ask me.
- tbf i only did analyses for the other group. published paper is a published paper, even with loss of dignity
  
  You are (somewhat) right... Publish or Perish is unfortunately true. Still, if I can avoid them in the future, I will. They look borderline predatory to me.
What kind of AI-generated horror is that picture?
- that's Sigma Xi, founder of Sigma Xi Society and he wants you to participate in MDPI Special Issue
  
  fr this image is probably handmade and could be few years old at this point
- It's the Xinjiang ~~megachad~~ gigachad Josh Brolin.
  
  EDIT: a word (yeah... no kidding)
- I think it's photo shop actually, the image has been around a while
They know a sucker when they see one...

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