Jobs come with a lot of shitty aspects. Don't get me wrong, I generally don't enjoy reviewing either. But I put a lot of work into it because regardless of what I think, this has a significant effect on real people and their entire livelihoods can depend on this task. Especially those in their early career. One or two publications in a top tier journal can land them that internship or job which snowballs.

So I'd ask you do one of two things, either:

- Review a work with the diligence and care that you wish someone would give to you

or

- Don't review

I'd also appreciate it if you openly recognized how stochastic the system is and that if/when you become in a position where you need to evaluate someone, that you remember this and take it into consideration. It has a lot of value to you too, since if the metric is extremely noisy it doesn't provide you value to heavily rely upon that metric. Look for others.

I do see it as my job, and my responsibility. I also see it as my job to help more junior colleagues, and even to teach what I've learned to undergraduates. I don't want to do any of those things. I don't even want to write papers. I just want to sit on my couch, code, and discover new knowledge that blows my mind.

But, people pay me to do a job. It's not in my contract in any clear terms, but to do my job well I need to do all those things; and I like doing my job well.