NeurIPS rebuttals burn days per reviewer with no payoff, researchers gripe
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-26
- Joking proposal by @mmitchellai: rebuttals that were clearly a lot of work should earn 1 extra point
- @sethlazar agrees and makes the serious point: authors can spend days addressing a single reviewer who may never read it, gaining nothing while losing time for other work and family
- The thread resonates as a widely shared pain point of conference peer review: high effort, uncertain returns
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