I like the idea of people seeing what others write on apps. Sometimes I miss out on some detail and I look at others to see what I could add. Surely you'd be able to see from the BD's last response, but it's also nice to see what different people look for in admins. If I was a new player here, and I was interested in applying for admin, I would look for sample admin apps just to see how people act, how they reply, and/or simply how it works. Some people, like myself, lurk around to see what they could improve before applying for admin by reading responses by other players.
On the other hand, if you disagree with what some people wrote, instead of claiming that they're hopping on the bandwagon on purpose, you could PM them. It's your application, you could point out that you did not do a certain thing. You don't have to stay quiet with stuff like that lol.. Otherwise, people are just going to see it as it is and complaining afterwards just isn't worth it imo. After all, we are in a community, and to think that it's unfair that the applications are not set to private seems kinda ehhhhh