Hello, I am going to assume that since you made it this far that you already tried the "Report a policy violation in a comment" link on the actual comment page and received no response or corrective actions?
Google's rating/warning systems certainly need an overhaul! Just be glad that is all the bad-guy is doing. I see your gadget is email related: I had an email gadget that was a year old with around 9k users. Then one day a competitor (who else?) reported it to Google as a "web forgery". This of course was nonsense (later Google even acknowledged that the gadget did nothing wrong), what was the results? The Gadget was banned and labeled as a "web forgery". I lost thousand of regular users not too mention that my business brand-name was unnecessarily tarnished. The "web forgery" warning remains to this day although the gadget has NEVER done anything wrong and the source code is still freely available for all to pick through for verification, AND lets not forget the fact that Google already acknowledged that the gadget didn't do anything wrong (I have still have the communication form Google)! So your experience here, as unfortunate as it may be, is not going to be a unique one. All you can do to correct this issue is what you have already done...now you wait. I wish I could be of more help here. On Sep 6, 3:56 pm, Widget Geek <[email protected]> wrote: > A user can rate a gadget unlimited number of times with whatever > rating they want to give to a gadget. Before reporting this to the > group, I have tried it in a gadget. Using same ID I was able to rate a > gadget again and again. This means anybody can repeatedly comment on > gadgets and exploit the rating system to bring gadget's rating down or > up. For example, look at the comments posted on this gadget. > > http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=hosting.gmodules.... > > If you carefully observe the comments and rating, you will find a > specific pattern and malign purpose. Somebody is trying to bring the > rating of this gadget down. Did you see the rating pattern? In fact, I > have even traced the guy who is playing this trick on my gadget for > bringing the rating down and exploiting the system to bring his > gadget's rating up. But I want to refrain from blaming somebody in > open forum. I want to report this issue to Google who act > appropriately after proper verification. Can anybody suggest me on how > to / where to report this issue? > > Thanks > Widget Geek. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" 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/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
