Ideally, people could just decide to be mature enough to participate in a detached, professional process. That's why we review things at all — quality control and consistency — in a word:
editing.
Some of us have professional editing backgrounds and know no criticism is worthless. Everyone, even the best writer in the world, needs an editor.
Everyone.
I've done professional editing. I know
@Doshii Jun still does. Some others as well. If something is wrong, you tell a person and let them fix it. If you caught them doing something naughty (i.e. copypasta), you suggest that they fix it before someone notices. And you know what? The
high drama here on SARP only ever ensues and escalates because a submitter takes suggestions as an attack, at which point they insult the person giving criticism, who subsequently gets riled up and yells back at them.
People who cannot handle the quality control process should not be putting their stuff up for review, plain and simple. Save it for when you can take at least the most minor criticism in stride. Public submission reviews are SARP's longstanding attempt to be professional, and the process has served us very well.
Nothing would even change with locked-but-readable reviews, tbh. Everyone would still accuse their favorite NTSE punching bag and claim bias (and if what I've learned about private conversations in this thread is any indication, the charge wouldn't be wrong).
Please. Decide to act like professionals and adults. Foster a collegial atmosphere rather than a paranoid one. That's what I try to do, that's what Legix tries to do, that's what Gunhand and Ame try to do. That's what it looks like Syaoran tries to do when he posts like he has been lately. Frost. Meta. Etc. Etc.
But it's hard to make it work when the effort is one-sided.