Too many review assignments on your plate? With autoreject, you can produce long and detailed reviews at the touch of a button, simply by filling out a short form. Check it out here!
April 1, 2019 - Andreas Zeller
Autoreject is an April's Fools joke. No reviewer with a clear mind would ever use such a tool, right? Choose from options and enjoy!
The "arguments" in the generator are all inspired by real reviews and arguments I have collected over time. This includes reviews colleagues and I have gotten for our papers, co-reviews of papers I reviewed, and discussions in PC meetings. I also follow ShitMyReviewersSay for inspiration.
With this site, I hope to raise some attention towards the problem of overly formalistic reviews - that is, "reviews" that take only a very shallow, "syntactical" look into a paper without considering its potential and deeper implications. Plus, it is a rhetorical exercise - namely, how to turn any argument into rejection.
Of course! As a reviewer, you can make your life easier by pointing out one of the "issues" in the autoreject reviews. Ignore the work's potential; ignore whether it may make some difference. Avoid making a difficult decision and go for the first flaw you can find.
No. While some reviews may be problematic, most reviewers are driven by the honest desire to understand and value the submitted material. If a reviewer rejects your paper for whatever arguments, you should always ask yourself what you could and should have done to improve. A "shallow" review often indicates that the reviewer was not motivated enough to get deeper, possibly because s/he had a bad day, but more likely because your paper could have done better. Improve and try again.
I am active in the Software Engineering community, so the site is geared towards arguments, methods, and reviews in that community. I'll happily include variants specialized for your community - e.g., for medicine or history.
Feel free to experiment with the site. If you want to cheat, examine the source code; this is where you can find all the snippets and their conditions.
Yes. Two, to be precise.
The content of this project itself is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the MIT license.