Agreed. Something needs to be done. I think google could allocate one employee to scanning the comments for now and perhaps banning/ warning users who made inappropriate comments from commenting?
On Nov 11, 8:29 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ratings are always a highly subjective thing which is why AndAppStore > hasn't included them . > > My 2/5 might be your 3/5 for no other reason than I've seen better > elsewhere that you haven't, your 4/5 may be my 2/5 just because you like > a colour scheme that I don't. You can't say people can only rate lower > than 3 if they type a long comment because you'll end up with junk > comments just to pad the space, and if you're going to say 300 > characters for below 3, why not 300 characters for above 3 so people > have to justify high rating to avoid attempts to bump apps to the top of > the popular list. > > Al. > > > > Protocol-X wrote: > > Yes it is rediculous, > > There is swearing, racial slurs, comments about body parts, all > > randomly out of nowhere. Google needs to kill the comments from being > > displayed so that only the app creator can see them and the rating > > system is defunk as well because people are ratting 1;'s because they > > dont understand apps or there is a german online book being rated ones > > because people are commenting its stupud because its in german... what > > do u expect even the descripion is German if u cannot see this was in > > German dont rate it poorly.. these are all situations and issue that > > need to be worked out. or require atleast a 300 character comment > > inorder to rate lower than a 3 so people are not just rated unfairly > > because of immature people. > > > On Nov 11, 5:56 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I can see this as a good idea so I've comment ratings into > >> AndAppStore.com, sorted the displayed comments by ranking, and show 5 at > >> a time. > > >> It took me a couple of hours to put the code together, so I'd hope that > >> the guys at google can do something similar for marketplace in the next > >> few days. > > >> Al. > > >> plusminus wrote: > > >>> Comments with bad ratings get hidden and need to be expanded by the > >>> user --> Almost no one will see them anymore > > >>> +1 for Comment-Rating-System > > >>> On 11 Nov., 00:10, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> well the ratings/comments now are just the same as the ratings/ > >>>> comments on youtube. does any1 ever reads them? > > >>>> On Nov 10, 4:29 pm, "Andrew Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Disconnect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>>> ..or just punt out users for ToS violations. > > >>>>>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:24 PM, ryaninc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>>>> I wholeheartedly agree. The comments are invaluable for determining > >>>>>>> how well an application works, but it's almost to the point where the > >>>>>>> comments are worthless because there's so much spam and completely > >>>>>>> off- > >>>>>>> topic discussion. > > >>>>>>> While I don't like comment moderation as a whole, there should be > >>>>>>> automatic filtering at the very least. Maybe Google could implement a > >>>>>>> filter that would delete comments with swear words, or even just turn > >>>>>>> them into asterisks. > > >>>>>>> There really needs to be a solution to this, it's really getting > >>>>>>> bad. :-( > > >>>>> Perhaps an implementation similar to many online retailers where users > >>>>> can > >>>>> say whether a review was helpful. Comments that others found helpful in > >>>>> making their decision could be floated to the top (or at least supply a > >>>>> sorting option/preference) so that it's easier to find more useful > >>>>> information. Similarly, a comment with enough bad feedback could be > >>>>> put up > >>>>> for some sort of review, and if deemed acceptable, the offending user > >>>>> could > >>>>> have comment privileges banned for some period of time. > > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Andrew Burgess > > >> -- > >> ====== > >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > >> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > >> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > >> subsidiaries.- Hide quoted text - > > >> - Show quoted text - > > -- > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. 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