Technical Support Forum

I agree with you Brandi. You also have restricting option within an item. When you want to create an item click to advanced and set it to rating requires review. Items will not accept ratings unless accompanied by a textual review. Since the average rating for these items excludes non-reviewers, their rating average is only visible to the owner of the item.(from 101 book)

This way you will prevent users from sending you ratings only and not reviews but it won't stop them to get access to your writing. I think this feature is great if you want your writing to be seen and shared not only with writers but also with readers (grey cases).