1/3 Many papers I'm handling as editor will have been rejected elsewhere. It is such a massive waste of time (mine, prior reviews, future reviews). If you are submitting a previously rejected manuscript to me, feel free to add prior reviews and tell me how you addressed them.
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One wrinkle is that, as Editor, I'd likely not know who the reviewers were, so can't gauge their relevance, COI, etc.
I think we can generate structural solutions to deal with this though.
Sample size is too small to generalize of course but I haven't been discouraged at least ;)