Tags: * the community does not have enough competent reviewers for all submissions * expand desk rejects
"I feel the community (and the review committee) is missing the key challenge of review. It is not the
controversy between rolling or non-rolling, but the conflict between the large volume of papers VS very
few competent reviewers. Therefore, the system is broken no matter whether it's rolling or non-rolling.
To fix the problem, we need to find a way to effectively reject a large number of incompetent submissions
while focusing on high-quality papers. This can be done by first-round light reviewing/voting (probably
by AC and senior AC). While this sounds unfair to authors, it is not. And it's been in practice for
many journals. Think of your paper submitted to Nature or Science, it won't get reviewed! "