[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread strazzere
It appears google does monitor and can/will disable accounts. For example - mine has been disabled. Why? No idea but I've gotten it confirmed by google support. They said it was disabled due to high volume and suspicious traffic - with not email notification or anything. Just turned off - and

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Stoyan Damov
:O:O:O On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:48 AM, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote: It appears google does monitor and can/will disable accounts. For example - mine has been disabled. Why? No idea but I've gotten it confirmed by google support. They said it was disabled due to high volume and

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Dan Morrill
The user account you indicated was indeed disabled due to suspicious high-volume activity, indicative of an attempted denial-of-service attack or similar inappropriate activity. We do not provide any more detail than that in such cases. Presumably this was related to this work, although we have

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Tim
How would one go about getting the account reinstated? I replied to Alan who originally sent that the account has been disabled but have been unable to get a reply. I'm sorry if traffic was suspicious but if it was from this - then it should have stopped approximately two or three weeks ago. So I

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Dan Morrill
As I said, I can't provide any additional details in such cases. Regarding reinstatement, I'm unfamiliar with Google's policies on reinstating accounts in such circumstances, but the folks who handle the support forum are. They can let you know what your options are. - Dan On Fri, Mar 13, 2009

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-13 Thread Tim
Dan, Sorry to bother you again - but under what support board should this be posted on? Are there any direct emails I can use for this that you know of? On Mar 13, 2009 7:57 PM, Dan Morrill morri...@google.com wrote: As I said, I can't provide any additional details in such cases. Regarding

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread AE
On Mar 7, 9:07 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: What about AE (or another single person) trying it out in public? Say what user he creates and what app he will rate/comment with *. We can watch if it gets deleted. I don't consider AE cheating if he does it once, in public,

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread Mariano Kamp
No it stays. Oh. That isn't so good. Then I guess your idea to ignore new user ratings (etc.) seems like a sensible approach. Btw. I think it would also be good to give the more recent ratings a higher weighting then the old ones as it was mentioned in another thread. On Sat, Mar 7, 2009

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread Inderjeet Singh
I actually like the discussion related to marketplace and checkout issues since I find it relevant to developers. Justin, is this your personal opinion or are you one of the moderators of the forum? Inder On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Justin Allen Jaynes jus...@ragblue.comwrote: While any

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:00 AM, AE antonio_eggb...@yahoo.se wrote: On Mar 7, 9:07 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: What about AE (or another single person) trying it out in public? Say what user he creates and what app he will rate/comment with *. We can watch if it gets

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread strazzere
Your interaction with the market is also logged with your android id -- which also seems to be linked to a gmail account you use on that device. So I'm assuming this could be tracked - and if google wanted to, they could see. Hmmm 150+ users with the same android id? All commenting and install

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread Stoyan Damov
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:58 PM, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote: Your interaction with the market is also logged with your android id -- which also seems to be linked to a gmail account you use on that device. So I'm assuming this could be tracked - and if google wanted to, they could

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread Dave Sparks
Filing a bug is the way to get things fixed. Most Google Android engineers do not read this list. They do respond to bug reports though. On Mar 7, 3:01 pm, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:58 PM, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote: Your interaction with the

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-07 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:58 PM, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote: Your interaction with the market is also logged with your android id -- which also seems to be linked to a gmail account you use on that device. So

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-06 Thread Justin Allen Jaynes
While any interest in Android is good, this is a developer forum only. Use this forum if: You're now an experienced Android application developer. You've grasped the basics of Android app development, you're comfortable using the SDK, now you want to move to advanced topics. Get help here

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-06 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Justin Allen Jaynes jus...@ragblue.com wrote: While any interest in Android is good, this is a developer forum only. You've said that about 15 times in the last 2 days. I think you've made your point. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: manipulating markets popularity! - why should i develop app for android

2009-03-06 Thread Al Sutton
Have you confirmed yourself on a G1 that after multiple 'phone resets and comments/ratings they all stay in the market for more than 48 hours? I'd be surprised if there wasn't a filtering mechanism which looked for multiple comments/ratings from the same 'phone which ran (possibly as a daily