And I think it'd be far easier to *ignore* bad review responses if they're buried beyond the reviews themselves. The only other alternative, it seems to me, is to spam the front page of TMS with links to both reviews AND review responses, just to be fair. And that's not much of an alternative.
Yes, some responses will sound defensive. They're *defenses*, and by their nature they sound defensive. At least by posting in the forums, the MUD operators take the chance that whoever posted the review will actually get involved in a dialogue, rather than a diatribe.
Let's quit trying to find ways to instill more chilling effects on the forums here, and encourage the free flow of ideas - even if we don't always agree with them.
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