> Reviews would become way more positive and useless. In my corner of CS, there are plenty reviews of debatable use that are very negative. In fact, I have a p

> Reviews would become way more positive and useless. In my corner of CS, there are plenty reviews of debatable use that are very negative. In fact, I have a pet hypothesis that the average score of the lower scoring but accepted papers is negative (scale from -3 to 3). And I wouldn't be surprised if the median paper's score was negative. Positive uselessness doesn't seem like that much worse.