In reply to Otto.

I'm sorry to say Otto, but you're being a bit of a cheeky aren't you. It's awfully easy making out every reviewer to be horrible people doing awful things, but watching numerous responses you've made (as well as one you've made in private to me), you seem quite content to subtly troll people by stressing things people didn't say or mean while being allergic to seeing things from other people's shoes.

Here you're making a big point about not deleting things, but archiving posts and denying them a means to edit or view replies is tantamount to a full removal. The distinction is irrelevant to the person who made the submission. In another review I watched you take apart a review while vehemently denying you were critiquing his points while acting surprised. Perfectly civilised reviews have been taken down. My review got taken down for being highly critical and long-winded and I offered to put in a short review instead and I was summarily dismissed as if I had committed high crimes.

I respect that a lot of the negative reviews on Gutenberg require moderation and this is a thankless job, but I don't think its right to bully people with their attempts to express themselves. Inviting people to email you when its highly unlikely that you're going to sympathize feels disingenuous to me, considering the way you put words into people's mouths here and elsewhere.

If you are taking feedback on board, maybe the mod team might consider a different way to dealing with reviews that don't meet the guidelines. Instead of 'archiving them' and shoeing people off, put them in moderation and instruct the reviewer how their review doesn't comply and allow them to edit it accordingly with consistency. Given the volume of reviews that have required moderation and your prolific activity, maybe its not all users fault. Maybe the review page itself could be redesigned to encourage better reviews.

It's not healthy to treat large numbers of people as malicious actors and such treatment only furthers division, which we can all agree we can do with less of. WP is certainly not helped by making people feel like their voices don't count or are unwanted.