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I was asked to review for a conference that I have not reviewed for before. The topic fits, the assigned papers fall withingwithin my expertise and the conference is respected, so I accepted to review.

Now I have finished the first review and wanted to fill out the form and submit, but lo and behold, they have a mandatory word minimum of 300 words per review report, if there are lessfewer words, I can't submit. My assessment does not have 300 words, even after I expanded all bullet points to full sentences (which is not helping the quality of the review in any way whatsoever IMO). There is simply not that much to say about it. I have added a short summary of the paper, I have shortcomings and strong points.

I get that they want to prevent reviews that are super rudimentary, but this makes we want to not review for them anymore.

My question: doDo you think it would be considered bad practivepractice / rude / whatever other type of bad form to add a sentence to the review along the lines of "To bring the review to the required minimum word count I am adding this sentence to the review as I do not have anything else to comment on".

I was asked to review for a conference that I have not reviewed for before. The topic fits, the assigned papers fall withing my expertise and the conference is respected, so I accepted to review.

Now I have finished the first review and wanted to fill out the form and submit, but lo and behold, they have a mandatory word minimum of 300 words per review report, if there are less words, I can't submit. My assessment does not have 300 words, even after I expanded all bullet points to full sentences (which is not helping the quality of the review in any way whatsoever IMO). There is simply not that much to say about it. I have added a short summary of the paper, I have shortcomings and strong points.

I get that they want to prevent reviews that are super rudimentary, but this makes we want to not review for them anymore.

My question: do you think it would be considered bad practive / rude / whatever other type of bad form to add a sentence to the review along the lines of "To bring the review to the required minimum word count I am adding this sentence to the review as I do not have anything else to comment on".

I was asked to review for a conference that I have not reviewed for before. The topic fits, the assigned papers fall within my expertise and the conference is respected, so I accepted to review.

Now I have finished the first review and wanted to fill out the form and submit, but lo and behold, they have a mandatory word minimum of 300 words per review report, if there are fewer words, I can't submit. My assessment does not have 300 words, even after I expanded all bullet points to full sentences (which is not helping the quality of the review in any way whatsoever IMO). There is simply not that much to say about it. I have added a short summary of the paper, I have shortcomings and strong points.

I get that they want to prevent reviews that are super rudimentary, but this makes we want to not review for them anymore.

My question: Do you think it would be considered bad practice / rude / whatever other type of bad form to add a sentence to the review along the lines of "To bring the review to the required minimum word count I am adding this sentence to the review as I do not have anything else to comment on".

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Can I add "padding" not relevant to the review to reach the minimum required word count?

I was asked to review for a conference that I have not reviewed for before. The topic fits, the assigned papers fall withing my expertise and the conference is respected, so I accepted to review.

Now I have finished the first review and wanted to fill out the form and submit, but lo and behold, they have a mandatory word minimum of 300 words per review report, if there are less words, I can't submit. My assessment does not have 300 words, even after I expanded all bullet points to full sentences (which is not helping the quality of the review in any way whatsoever IMO). There is simply not that much to say about it. I have added a short summary of the paper, I have shortcomings and strong points.

I get that they want to prevent reviews that are super rudimentary, but this makes we want to not review for them anymore.

My question: do you think it would be considered bad practive / rude / whatever other type of bad form to add a sentence to the review along the lines of "To bring the review to the required minimum word count I am adding this sentence to the review as I do not have anything else to comment on".