Hi Sanjeev. I read your response to the initial review and I understand your frustration. Yes, the review criteria was a bit ad hoc as you say, but you should consider the reasoning behind it as well. As an orkut user, how would you feel if the top 25 applications in the directory had the title "11 cool movies." This would personally frustrate me since I could go through tens of these applications before finding a list that I actually agree with. Having an app dedicated to a single movie or celebrity is one thing but your selection of 11 movies limits the audience considerably. If you're going to feature multiple movies/actors/athletes, it makes more sense (to me at least) to build an application where users can add their own favorites and form communities within the application. And for the record, we have accepted a number of Corners applications already without complaint. As far as I know, this is the first Corners application we've taken issue with.
That said, we will take another look at your application soon and reply with a few small fixes that you can do in order to make it into the directory. I'm sorry again for your frustration but we do appreciate the apps that you're contributing. The reviewers will get back to you privately very soon. - Jason On Aug 20, 12:22 am, Corners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Orkut application process is highly adhoc. We have had some > comments such as these - > > "If you want to make an application about Indian movies, you should > include all Indian movies within the app, > not 11 random movies". > > Is Orkut trying to prejudge the taste of its users vis-a-vis > applications. They are increasing the work for themselves as well as > for the application creators. A lot of effort goes into creating > applications, and random reasons like these do not help the cause of > anyone. > > As long as the applications are adhering to the general guidelines and > do not have any objectionable content, they should be automatically > approved. Whether they are liked by the users or not should be left to > the users. If the application is not succesful, the owners of the > application will improve it or will pull it out. > > Why is Orkut taking trying to take the burden of advising application > creators what type of applications they should create? > > Frustrated @ Orkut. > Sanjeev --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut 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/opensocial-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
