Congrats on getting your app back. this should be a heads up for everyone.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:26 AM, n.a <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Kevin,
> Yes, I've used tesla. Sorry if you feel offended.
>
> Bebbled is completely written by me - it doesn't include any external
> libraries. I don't think there is anything which might look like
> malware there.
>
> Tiny Compass - it has many permissions including the ones for
> location, but that's required in order to make a distinction between
> the real north and the magnetic one. Also, includes ads from admob,
> but that's all.
>
> On Jun 15, 10:06 am, Kevin TeslaCoil Software <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > tesla
> >
> > Hey! That's my keyword (TeslaLED Flashlight)!
> >
> > I do agree that keyword spam doesn't seem big enough of an offense for
> > your whole account to be deleted.
> > Any chance one of your other apps did something that could've been
> > considered malware? Maybe Tiny was just caught in the mix and the
> > target was a different app.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > -Kevin
> >
> > On Jun 15, 1:15 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > After the list of devices you have the following:
> >
> > > "Torch, Light, Camera, Flash, Color, Dark, Bright, Brightness,
> > > Brightest, Lights, Signal, Find Keys, Screen, Effects, brightest
> > > flashlight, Emergency, Warning, Police, brightest led flash,
> > > DroidLight, Maximum, Backlight, Best, Great, Fun, Cool, Coolest,
> > > Widget, led flashlight, led flash, led light, brightest led
> > > flashlight, camera light, color flashlight, color flash, tesla, bright
> > > light, brightness, flash camera, flash, cam light, screen light, light
> > > effects, simple flashlight, search, screen brightness, brightest app,
> > > max brightness, maximum brightness, dark, darkness, police light,
> > > emergency light"
> >
> > > This looks to me like you overdid it a little bit ;-)
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:02 PM, n.a <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > On Jun 15, 8:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >> > What Google has to do is to create a separate Tags input field in
> the
> > > >> > market admin panel, give it some limit and then let the developers
> > > >> > compete. This is the fair way.
> >
> > > >> In your case, 2/3 of your app description was keywords
> >
> > > > I'm sorry, but this is not true. You can still see it here:
> > > >
> http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.devuni.flash...
> >
> > > > Also, most of the "keywords" are just device models, which the
> > > > flashlight works on.
> >
> > > > -- so you were
> > > >> by far one of the worst violators.  Perhaps one of your competitors
> > > >> reported you for stealing from them and Google acted on it.  I have
> no
> > > >> idea.
> > > >> Is there anything stopping you from creating a new account, paying
> the
> > > >> $25 again and republishing your app?  It's not ideal, but since you
> > > >> have a free app, it's not like you have to migrate the users.  If
> your
> > > >> app is good, and I believe it was, your rank would rise fairly
> quickly.
> >
> > > > This is a workaround. I hope that Google will change their internal
> > > > policy and start warning the developers before deleting applications
> > > > and accounts.
> >
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> > > Romain Guy
> > > Android framework engineer
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> >
> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time
> > > to provide private support.  All such questions should be posted on
> > > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them
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