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"Public reviews" don't do that. Humans being able to communicate is what does that.  If you want to stop cancel mobs, you have to either move to an alternate universe populated by more reasonable sophonts, or put in the heavy moderation work on your platform to prevent it from happening.  You can't do it by blocking one particular avenue of human communication and leaving all the rest.

I don't even understand what you're trying to say. Do you want people to be completely unable to say anything about games?

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No.  I want people to stop trying to solve problems that boil down to "eliminate all the bad things that can be done with human communication," because [a] that has literally never worked, [b] the only way to accomplish it would involve total human extinction, and [c] it's almost always a distraction from some real problem (in this case, forum moderation), which requires a significant but achievable level of work to accomplish.  Substituting an impossible problem for a possible one is just a cheap way to avoid actually doing any work, and I have zero respect for that kind of moral cowardice.  

OK, that sounds... crazy. I'm not sure how you got to that point, but all I'm saying is that it should be made obvious that "reviews" are not made public, but sent to the publisher/dev as a private message.

I was responding to the guy (Mango Scribble) who said, and I quote, "public reviews encourage dog piling and bias."