Public Reviewing

I think multiple submissions touch on this and invite others to fill out this section.

-- FredDouglis - 01 Apr 2008

Apparently the ACM policy on reviewer anonymity completely prohibits revealing the identities of reviewers (assuming that an ACM conference is treated as acting as part of ACM): http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/reviewer-anonymity. It also looks like this requirement may be hard to change - and cannot be done on a conference-by-conference basis.

-- JohnWilkes - 20 May 2008

Interesting point. I'm curious whether they really mean to say that a reviewer can't self-disclose or they really mean that it's sacrosanct otherwise and a program chair or editor must not disclose. But, given the discussion at WOWCS that pointed out that the more people self-disclose the more vulnerable anonymous reviewers are to being figured out, I think it's a valid policy.

-- FredDouglis - 20 May 2008