On 1-10-2011 23:21, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/1/2011 4:46, Warp wrote:
>> Care to give an example?
>
> I actually had a review rejected because my review was "5 of 5. Nothing
> to say except perfect." Now, it wasn't a science article but a computer
> science article that was about the formal math rather than science, but
> people didn't believe I had read the article when really it was "this is
> perfect. what more can I say?"

You might give some remarks on why it is important and hint at places 
where having read this article earlier might have saved you some 
trouble. Perhaps even point to a field the authors did not mention and 
might have overlooked, while including it would make the paper stronger.

If I have a good paper under review I sometimes do things like that. 
Reviewing is more than pointing at the errors, you try to improve the 
article in any way you can. The highest honour you can get as a reviewer 
is 'we thank an anonymous reviewer' in the acknowledgements. I have not 
achieved that yet. :(

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