I'd just like to remind you that by supporting the other application directory sites you can give Google a commercial prod to make the changes you want. The carriers they have agreements with get a cut of sales made through market (when they start to happen), so if you want to hit them where it hurts start helping to publicize and support app directories which offer the services you want by listing your apps on them and keeping your listings up to date.
Al. http://andappstore.com/ Max Binshtok wrote: > Googlers, please read! > > I recently posted my application and while overall the comments were > very useful, there is abut 30% which are spam and one or two very > offensive comments. > If google can't/won't moderate the comments, WHY can't we as > developers do that? Mystery to me... > I'll tell you the truth, I'm really got disappointed with how the > market is managed by Google. > They are slow, irresponsive to developers and user needs etc... Does > google become bloated "can't do anything without going over 100 heads > of management people" kind of company... I'm really disappointed. > > We are required to pay money to prevent "spam apps" but google does > nothing to prevent VERY offensive and irrelevant comments. How's that > for good judgment? > > Googlers, please read! > > > On Nov 11, 12:09 pm, Robert Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Agreed. Something needs to be done. I think google could allocate >> one employee to scanning thecommentsfor now and perhaps banning/ >> warning users who made inappropriatecommentsfrom 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 >>> commentsjust 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,commentsabout body parts, all >>>> randomly out of nowhere. Google needs to kill thecommentsfrom 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 displayedcommentsby 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: >>>>> >>>>>> Commentswith 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/commentsnow are just the same as the ratings/ >>>>>>> commentson 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. Thecommentsare invaluable for determining >>>>>>>>>> how well an application works, but it's almost to the point where the >>>>>>>>>> commentsare 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 deletecommentswith 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. Commentsthat 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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