Hi, Our app, aForum, is a very popular forum app on the market. It had very good user rating. Last week, our forum was spammed by some people out of nowhere all of a sudden. The spamming included constant meaningless posts and vulgar words for a while. We got short peaceful time after banning some people. Early this week, they staged a second round of attack. After some investigation, we found out these people were from a competing forum. We have clear evidence that this is a well-coordinated attack. From their forum, they even talked about how to hack our system to initiate further spamming. They left very low rating on our review plus flagging our app as inappropriate. This resulted in the decrease of our rating recently.
Their forum does not seem to be moderated. I don't think their developers are involved in these attacks. But I think they are at least partially responsible for not doing diligent work because their app clearly violated the market content policy: http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html We reported this issue to the Android team and has not receive and response yet. I would like to know your opinions about this if you have similar situation. Thanks. -- 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
