Hi, But isn't relevance just as subjective, it depends on perspective, context and expert knowledge / mastery of the app / platform / domain ? How would it be automatically ranked ? By number of stars given ? The authors/dev comment is usually a biased 5 star, your competitor as usually a biased lesser number of stars & mentions their alternative app. (For my app) I regularly see comments that are positive but mention some missing app feature - that is usually already supported - so only give 4 stars, which usually means the user doesn't know or the feature is not 'intuitive' or easy to find / use. Any ratings system has weaknesses that can be exploited, heck I've seen someone spamming for a paid service where they offer an 'army' of users to give good app ratings for a price (!) I'd prefer to see user comments fixed in time & provision for a DEV response to each comment, together with a URL link for more lengthy discussion in an (lightly moderated) official open Android Market App Forum (just like this forum) where both the user(s) and dev can continue a discussion at length about the original comment.
Regards On Dec 29, 9:52 am, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > No, the obvious solution would be to rank comments by relevance. > > Sent from a mobile device > > On Dec 28, 2010, at 17:40, Pent <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Since the new Market layout, I believe the top 3 comments have become > > much more important than the others. They were more important before, > > but only slightly so, since the others were visible immediately right > > below them. > > > I think it's now easy to tip a sale one way or the other dependent on > > whether those 3 comments are very positive or very negative. > > > Now, in theory I can register 3 Google accounts, buy the app 3 times > > and make sure those comments are always positive. I can see that my > > competitor is already doing this (though with only one account), which > > prompted my post. > > > The only thing to stop me doing that is my own conscience and the > > market 'policy': > > >http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... > > > ...which is only policed if someone complains. And if the abuser does > > it again straight after, nothing is done till someone complains again, > > rewind and repeat (in my experience). > > > Since no one is likely to be policing my comments except me, surely > > it's stupid not to be fixing them ? Or did I miss something ? > > > The obvious quick-remedy is to stop people reposting comments...or if > > they repost they stay in the same position they were before. I'm sure > > the Market Team will be listening.... > > > Pent > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
