Reviewer pastes "I am not familiar with this area" into all 5 boxes, rates paper a 4

ziv_ravid · x · 2026-11-10

An ICLR review for a video-understanding paper (SENRI) filled all five text boxes — summary, strengths, weaknesses, questions, ethics — with the same sentence: "I am not familiar with this area." Then it rated the paper 4, clear acceptance, with confidence 1. An extreme specimen of broken peer review: openly unqualified, still voting to accept.

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