True peer review, as in review by one’s peers and without any pesky ‘reviewers’.

“Besides inventing quantum theory, Planck had made another great contribution to science by welcoming and generously supporting the young Albert Einstein. In 1905, when Einstein, then an unknown employee of the Swiss patent office in Bern, sent five revolutionary papers to the physics journal that Planck edited in Berlin, Planck immediately recognized them as works of genius and published them quickly without sending them to referees. He did not agree with all of Einstein’s ideas, but he published all of them.”

Freeman Dyson in the NYRB. Real review by one’s peers, and not a checklist in sight.