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I used startuplift and made useful changes on my site based on the feedback. It would be cool if they had a private feedback section where reviewers are (empathetically) encouraged to just tear into submissions. Then peel back with the "constructive" criticism.

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Wturner,

Thanks for your feedback. This is something we have been going back and forth with for a while. Is 'private' feedback that critical? Many have suggested we implement it, but there are equally others who are against the idea. Some have even suggested that "publicly" soliciting feedback shows that you care to your customers. However, you are likely to have completely different goals for public solicitation vs. private.

I wasn't thinking of hiding the comments to protect the startups public image. I was thinking of protecting the reviewers so they feel they can let loose without any hedging about it.

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