Thanks for bringing it out to our attention, we'll consider creating a
feature that would resolve this, like an opt-out for notifications.
On Oct 6, 8:40 am, Lucanos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> {An Open Letter to the Developers}
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I am writing today with reference to a number of concerns and issues
> which I have encountered, or have been told about, within your
> application "Compare Friends".
>
> 1 - Intrusive Advertising
> Whilst I understand that development and hosting of applications cost
> money, I believe that the methodology currently in use by yourselves
> are intrusive, detract from the value of the application and are very
> unlikely to provide any real income for yourselves in their current
> form.
> Inserting random people into comparison screens, asking users to
> compare a known person to an unknown person does not seem to be inline
> with the original intentions of this application, may result in
> inaccurate ratings for people compared in these match-ups and are very
> unlikely to convert into "click-throughs" for your advertisers.
> The end result is akin to going to a friend's house party and finding
> that within the guest there are a half-dozen hookers - they aren't
> your friends, they detract from the party, and the people who see it
> are very unlikely to actual avail themselves of the offered services.
>
> 2 - Insensitive Notifications
> I was recently contacted by a friend on Facebook who received messages
> from your application which she found quite disparaging. I do not
> believe that I had checked/unchecked the provided box to authorise the
> notification of users with regards to whether I had rated them as a
> "winner" or "loser" in any match-ups. Further, due to this application
> placing a message in my News Feed, this user had been able to identify
> me as the person responsible for the notifications, and was upset
> about what these notifications inferred regarding my thoughts of her.
> There must be an option for a user to completely opt-out of any
> notifications being sent by the system.
>
> Realistically, in it's current form, this application is not well
> suited for a community such as Facebook, and if anything goes against
> one of the unwritten ideals of Facebook, which is to being people
> together - instead this application upsets and spams people we have
> marked as friends in the community, and bombards those of us who try
> and use it with advertisements for services which we will most likely
> never use.
>
> I would strongly suggest that the developers re-examine their
> decisions regarding advertising and notifications, as all you are
> doing now is turning the word-of-mouth which was responsible for the
> expansion of your userbase to begin with, around and the only thing I
> am hearing now is negative comments about this application and how it
> is being administered.
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