[android-developers] Re: How do we get Google's attention regarding the problems around randomly sorting comments in the Android Market?

2011-08-01 Thread Jona
I'm seeing the same issue. I was looking at the comments and saw few where people complaint about really old bugs! And sure enough the date on those where months back! Google needs to provide the same rating system as Apple. They show you ratings according to the current version and previous and

[android-developers] Re: How do we get Google's attention regarding the problems around randomly sorting comments in the Android Market?

2011-08-01 Thread nadam
That would really suck. Someone gives a crappy app 5 stars and then the second rater has to give it 4 or 5? A better solution could be to skip the 5-star rating and replace it with something like +1, which is already used in other Google services. On 1 Aug, 06:50, AndroidYourself wrote: > It is

[android-developers] Re: How do we get Google's attention regarding the problems around randomly sorting comments in the Android Market?

2011-07-31 Thread AndroidYourself
It is simple: The user cannot rate with 1-Star! The last rating have to be the possible range of +1- So if the first user rate this app with 4, then the next user can only rate 5/4/3. If the 2nd user rate this app with 3 (4+3 /2 = 3.5), then the next user can rate this app: 3.5 +/-1: = ( 4, 3.5

[android-developers] Re: How do we get Google's attention regarding the problems around randomly sorting comments in the Android Market?

2011-07-31 Thread Mark Carter
I would recommend this: For the initially-shown 3 comments: use the 3 most "helpful" comments related to the most recent release. If there are less than 3 such comments, then regress into earlier releases. For the "Read All Comments" show all the comments in reverse chronological order (as bef

[android-developers] Re: How do we get Google's attention regarding the problems around randomly sorting comments in the Android Market?

2011-07-31 Thread nexbug
I really hope google is watching.. the value of market comments cannot be understated. Done wrongly as now , it can hurt good apps and boost bad ones. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to and