Hi, >Allowing >someone to buy positive ratings makes my blood boil.
This is not something you can prevent, it is like 'rent a crowd' outside a retail outlet when a new product is released, or paying a journo or prominent site for a glowing review, or paying someone who hand picks app's to recommend (no offence intended!), or paying for a celebrity endorsement. I see often web articles along the lines of 10 must have apps and wonder what kick backs are involved. There is also sites where you pay (big dollars) to have them review your app. These are all just forms of paid advertising, some palatable some not. I'd still like to see an official Android Market App Forum (not the existing market forum) with links to each app comment, where dev's can respond to each user comment and also have the ability to see all comments a user makes and perhaps let dev's rate users as well so anybody can gauge the value of a user's comments and ratings. Regards On Dec 30, 8:48 am, Mike Wolfson <[email protected]> wrote: > I spend a lot of time researching apps (the app I have in the market > is an app recommendation engine). I always scroll through a few pages > of comments to determine how good an app is. I would expect most > users do the same. The original market app only displayed a few > comments also (you had to scroll to see more than the first few ones), > so I am not sure if that much has changed. I think most consumers are > smart enough to look through a representative amount of comments, to > get a real idea of the quality of the app (not just the first comments > that appear). > > I am very concerned about the companies that allow you to "buy > positive ratings" (quite a few developers have received an email > offering this). I am not sure how many developers are actually > employing these services. Their existence undermines the quality of > the real comments in the market. I come by my positive ratings > honestly (by being responsive to my users, creating a product that > doesn't crash, and releasing new features regularly). Allowing > someone to buy positive ratings makes my blood boil. > > -Mike > Download my app (Droid Of The Day) from the Market - "Handpicked > Android apps delivered to your notification bar daily" > > On Dec 28, 9:40 am, 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 at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
