Another reason why I will stop reviewing for the global #DigitalHumanities conference: review responses. It’s humiliating to make authors beg reviewers for better grades. But since the abstracts remain unchanged, there is no reason to change my mind (unless I made an actual mistake, of course). If everything is meant to be negotiable, why have review criteria in the first place? Bonus: as the reviews are open, some authors will probably denounce reviewers that didn’t “correct” their grades.
@true_mxp It's not a show-stopper for me, but I agree that the review system, which was probably well intended, needs some refinement. If you have review responses, then one should also be able to revise the abstract. I like the iterative approach, but currently the responses you can give are rather meaningless. Also affects @DHdKonferenz
@felwert @DHdKonferenz Yes, I don’t doubt the good intentions, but it’s only getting worse.
