On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, cyxb <[email protected]> wrote:
> A comment like that will cause an avalanche of similar comments. > Indeed. I always see negative 1-star comments in pairs, usually followed by decent-minded individuals that insult or counter the negative. 2010/8/29 Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> > One of my apps received more than the usual number of "can't open" comments > within the last week. > > I guess the word "widget" in its title isn't understood for some reason... > Do yourself a favor and add a default Activity that shows a message explaining this. It doesn't matter how clearly you explain this in the description - some people still don't get the concept of a widget. On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > I suppose in the end this kind of "social" Market features (starts > and comments) are just useless. > Wouldn't call it useless, as much as "flawed". There is value to getting feedback from users and seeing an overall rating for an app for users to determine if it's worth their time. However, with no way to respond to individual comments and no expiration on comments (why is a 1-star rating from a year ago still considered valid?), the system is certainly not as good as it EASILY could be. On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Anil <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a suggestion. Make short 1 minute video clips of people using your > app and saying why they like it - post these on youtube. > People barely read app descriptions - the likelihood of them going to your site and sitting through a 1 minute video is so low it wouldn't be worth the effort, IMO. Though a promotional video in general is a good idea I think. On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:32 PM, niko20 <[email protected]> wrote: > A definitive test is to mark a comment as spam, and then see if > another user with a device can see the comment or not. > Yup, already tried this with a friend. It only goes away for the person marking as spam. > As a test, look at Electrum Drum Machine, and tell me what the last two > comments (the first two in the list) say. Are any of them spam about free > websites? > Yup! Though they're not the two latest, the 1st and 5th one down. I assume the first just re-updated recently. > I'm not sure why marking as spam would only hide the comment for > the current device - there would be little point in that type > of functionality. > Well it also wouldn't make much sense to automatically remove a spam comment from the Market completely based on one user. Then we'd all mark the 1-star ratings as spam and live happily ever after. One would think that with enough votes a comment would go away completely, but there's nothing to indicate this is the case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
