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📖What it means
The reviewer's verdict that the work is not acceptable. A fail is INFORMATION — it says what is missing. Lowering a threshold or relaxing a criterion to turn a fail green destroys that information and is forbidden.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Blocked
Fail is a judgment on the work; blocked is a state the work is left in.
Not: Vacuous
A fail found something wrong; a vacuous review found nothing to judge at all.
🗣️Also called
rejectedrednot accepted