"We feel this item would be better in another publication, such as the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto" - Pete #TeamMonique

Please, be That Bitch Reviewer. It's better than seeing something like that in print. - Kirsten

I've been That Bitch Reviewer once or twice. It has to be done. - Walt Crawford

Be it. Do it. - Rachel Walden

I think you just did your peer review here in FF. You're done. - Stephen le Francoeur

What everyone else said. Just Say Hellz Naw. - RepoRat

Please, after suffering through reading the library literature for classes for the last year, be the Bitch Reviewer - ~Courtney F

SMASH - jambina

yup, be the bitch. - Hedgehog

+1 plz - marlene

"The topic covered is of potential interest to the readers of the journal, but the exact significance needs further explanation in the paper. The author's approach to the material is unclear and needs to be outlined more specifically. The methodology section needs far more expansion as the reader could not necessarily draw the same conclusions as the author from the way this section is written currently. The writing style does not sufficiently follow scholarly conventions in the way the argument is expressed nor in the citation used to support points made. Further revision is thus necessary.." <= There you go, DONE! - Kathryn is Blake in Hindi

That's the Outside Voice version, the polite "you need to fix this" version that goes back to the author. If it's as bad as warmaiden suggests, there's also the Inside Voice that goes to the editor (which I've had to use, but only twice): "This is almost certainly hopeless; is there a polite way to discourage this person?" - Walt Crawford

[I have to say: Of the two totally-hopeless papers I refereed, one did appear in almost unchanged form, in a commercial LIS journal, and it was just as bad as I remembered. LIS is a poster child for the truism that peer review doesn't determine whether an article will be published, only where.] - Walt Crawford

And lo, on this Tuesday in the month of April on its twenty-and-fourth day in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve, Colleen was chosen to carry That Bitch Reviewer mantle in the name of the Holy Library. Though the mantle be heavy and its treads be dusty from disuse, such is the burden for those who peer review journal articles for the science of the library. But ye, as she fights for eloquent prose to convey how sucky this article be, the librarians of this world will rest easy and sleep fitfully having never gazed upon the words that Colleen has endured on our behalf. Praise be unto Colleen for keeping and defending the library science faith from all who would sully it! Huzzah! - Andy

This is your Gandolf moment: You shall not pass to publication! - Andy

Wow. Just... Wow - awd (canoeist in th wild)

LOL, Andy - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

I'm stuck at home with what is probably strep, so I need something to kill time. :D - Andy