On Monday, 18 March 2013 20:25:20 UTC+1, Nathan wrote: > > > > On Monday, March 18, 2013 3:34:04 AM UTC-7, b0b wrote: > >> >> I wanted that feature badly one year ago, but now I hardly care about it > > I'm sure someone will trade with you. ;) > > as clown comments do not have much effect on established apps. >> > > They don't? Sorry, this is something that us developers tell ourselves, > but it doesn't square with reality, or numerous marketing studies that have > been done. > > If those clown comments are part of the first three a user sees on the > first page, they do have an effect. > > Really, It depends on the rating of the app. If an app is rated 4.4 and has 3K comments, it will not have much effect. Of course everyone prefer not to have 1 star clown comments as the top comments but this is more harmful for newer apps than established and stable apps with a good rating score. Believe it or not but non-clown users are actually good at discarding clown comments, especially if the app has a lot of good ratings/comments.
Tthe ability to respond is invaluable for a newer app (that may be buggy etc), to help it get better ratings which is very important to move up in search results (one of the many criterias). > But for the most part, this is for the benefit of other readers. It may > convince them that it is worthwhile to contact us, or read the help. > > Sure, it is useful to respond to comments in some cases. I just wished I had it when starting new apps, not 1.5 years later =). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
