Reviewer refuses to read 70-page appendices: answer key questions in the main paper
CharlotteHase · x · 2026-11-07
X user Charlotte Hase sparked a peer-review culture debate: if a paper has a 70+ page appendix, she won't even try to look at it — she reviews only up to the references. If a major question isn't answered in the main paper, her review will flag it rather than hunt through the appendix.
The take touches a growing pain point in AI publishing: as appendices balloon with experiments, ablations, and proofs, reviewers increasingly push back on whether key evidence belongs in the main text.
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