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   "text": "Without crowd controls, the reviewer's views and the author's intent are at odds and the reviewer can impose their own logic, forcing the author to rewrite functionally sound code repeatedly, which is highly time consuming and inefficient.",
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   "text": "Without crowd control the reviewer's views and the code author's intent are at odds, so a reviewer imposing their own logic can force repeated rewrites of code whose core functionality is already sound; a code review should instead focus on functionality and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out.",
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