A thought from 2016.
It took us nine years and a bit. In retrospect, I think we held out pretty long.
#iclr #openreview
@yaxu It's openreview, and it's more of a bug than a hack.
But the basic idea is the same: lots of reviewer identities exposed and a lot of people upset with reviewers that gave them bad scores.
https://medium.com/@billxu_atoms/the-day-anonymity-died-inside-the-openreview-iclr-2026-leak-ee687e7a8041
On November 27, 2025, the “blind” in “double-blind peer review” suddenly vanished. Here is the definitive breakdown of the OpenReview leak…
Peter Bloem
Alex McLean