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   "text": "Hierarchical code review undermines long-term participation by reviewers at the edges of the reviewer spectrum, because those reviewers either have no access to the code or no standing to help review it.",
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   "text": "More reviewers asking clarifying questions makes code simpler and clearer, which typically increases code quality, but hierarchical review processes foreclose this mechanism and also exclude opinions from the edges of the reviewer spectrum.",
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