Well, those responses didn't exactly show great belief in mankind
I have a more positive view, and believe that when are people are given responsibility, they take responsibility. If Ricochet's and Raff's reservations were valid, then Wikipedia and just about every kind of social media would be a desolate wasteland of barbarians. We know they are not. That's the core of how the Internet is evolving these days.
I believe that making the reviews interactive could be the single most effective way of taking this site up one league, inspiring creative interactions that would make us way more appelling to new users.
The reviews are not made in a vacuum and should not be kept in a vacuum. Discussing them is the best way to achieve better understanding of the subject of which they are written. Hardly anybody gets so agitated about a review that they care to post a thread in the forum, and only a few get so inspired that they write a review of their own (and in my opinion, reviews should first and foremost be inspired by albums, not by other reviews). Creating interaction is a democratic way of making the content of the review more interesting, and thus the focus on the album is intact.
We're not afraid of discussion, are we? We're still devoted to democracy in our respective locations in the world?
Of course, some people will always step out of line and focus their critisism or comments on the reviewer rather than the review. So there should be a way of reporting discussions that go too far. But there's no evidence to support that this would be a problem with the majority, or even a large minority. I say again: Look at other social media. And there's no evidence to support that the mods' workload would "increase a hundredfold" or even close. Unless they aim to read every single discussion, which I really don't see why they would want to.
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