[godelski]

Jobs come with a lot of shitty aspects. Don't get me wrong, I generally don't enjoy reviewing either. But I put a lot of work into it because regardless of what I think, this has a significant effect on real people and their entire livelihoods can depend on this task. Especially those in their early career. One or two publications in a top tier journal can land them that internship or job which snowballs.

So I'd ask you do one of two things, either:

- Review a work with the diligence and care that you wish someone would give to you

or

- Don't review

I'd also appreciate it if you openly recognized how stochastic the system is and that if/when you become in a position where you need to evaluate someone, that you remember this and take it into consideration. It has a lot of value to you too, since if the metric is extremely noisy it doesn't provide you value to heavily rely upon that metric. Look for others.