[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-31 Thread String
On Aug 30, 7:22 pm, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: You are probably right, but the reason I haven't done it yet is because I expect Market comments along the lines of: A widget-only application for some stupid reason appears in the applications list! One star!! Fix ASAP to

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-31 Thread YuviDroid
Or you can set your default activity to be CATEGORY_INFO (instead of CATEGORY_LAUNCHER). In this way the app does not appear in the apps list, and if a user presses the Open button in the Market they will get to this activity. I've done this with one of my widgets and never received any bad

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-30 Thread TreKing
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:30 PM, cyxb cyxb.andr...@gmail.com wrote: A comment like that will cause an avalanche of similar comments. Indeed. I always see negative 1-star comments in pairs, usually followed by decent-minded individuals that insult or counter the negative. 2010/8/29 Kostya

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-30 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
30.08.2010 22:07, TreKing ?: 2010/8/29 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com mailto:kmans...@gmail.com One of my apps received more than the usual number of can't open comments within the last week. I guess the word widget in its title isn't understood for some reason... Do

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-30 Thread TreKing
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com wrote: You are probably right, but the reason I haven't done it yet is because I expect Market comments along the lines of: A widget-only application for some stupid reason appears in the applications list! One

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
One of my apps received more than the usual number of can't open comments within the last week. I guess the word widget in its title isn't understood for some reason -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 29.08.2010 0:31 пользователь cyxb cyxb.andr...@gmail.com написал: My

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/28/10 22:30 , cyxb wrote: My favorite one-star Market comment: Rate one star if you want the full version to be free!. Or another 1 star classic: Make the full version free cuz my mom won't let me buy it People are like lemmings. A

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread Anil
I have a suggestion. Make short 1 minute video clips of people using your app and saying why they like it - post these on youtube. Then have a web page with links to these and also text comments from Market. Try to find balanced comments - all excessively sweet will make people mistrust your

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/29/10 12:41 , Anil wrote: I have a suggestion. Make short 1 minute video clips of people using your app and saying why they like it - post these on youtube. Then have a web page with links to these and also text comments from Market. Try to

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread Michael A.
On Aug 29, 11:04 am, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I suppose in the end this kind of social Market features (starts and comments) are just useless. I suppose what irritates a little bit about this is that it shouldn't be useless. Peer

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Not being able to respond to a comment in a situation like this, just like with comments caused by lack of knowledge on the user's part is well very painful indeed. -- Kostya Vasilyev -- http://kmansoft.wordpress.com 29.08.2010 23:05 пользователь Michael A. michael.aki...@gmail.com

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread niko20
Yes it will always show in the dev console, because it's the Market app that filters out the comments that are marked as spam. A definitive test is to mark a comment as spam, and then see if another user with a device can see the comment or not. As a test, look at Electrum Drum Machine, and tell

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-29 Thread OldSkoolMark
Very nice app. Yep. You got free website spam. Why google is moving so slowly to improve the market for both developers and potential users continues to mystify ... It is obvious that market support for communications between end user(s) and the developer is in the best interest of everyone. On

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-28 Thread Michael A.
Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't noticed that feature of Androlib before, but this is a great feature. I had an user making repeated comments on my app, and I couldn't quite decide whether he was a legitimate user or an idiot. Checking his history of comments turns up 90% of his comments of

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-28 Thread cyxb
My favorite one-star Market comment: Rate one star if you want the full version to be free!. Or another 1 star classic: Make the full version free cuz my mom won't let me buy it People are like lemmings. A comment like that will cause an avalanche of similar comments. Likewise, a great comment

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-27 Thread nation-x
I suspect that alot of comments... especially on free apps are competitors... not just trolls. I have had people post comments that were entirely untrue about my apps before... in addition, you can never underestimate the stupidity of the average user. I have had some negative comments because the

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Yahel
Take a look at this : http://www.androlib.com/android.comment.author.smoke1331-pqEAB.aspx The guys seems to be randomly picking apps and sending this comment :s Good luck. Yahel On 26 août, 14:28, abowman abow...@gmail.com wrote: I've got an app in the marketplace that has no reported errors

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread { Devdroid }
On 26 August 2010 16:25, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at this : http://www.androlib.com/android.comment.author.smoke1331-pqEAB.aspx The guys seems to be randomly picking apps and sending this comment :s There're idiots everywhere, especially in anonymous community. You can send

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
It's a tough situation. On one hand, comments like that may actually be truthful and useful to future users. But in some cases, such as the person mentioned above, it's just flat out useless and wrong. I'm not sure there's any easy answer or even an easy proposal to be offered to Google to

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread niko20
Long press and mark the comment as spam On Aug 26, 10:51 am, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.com wrote: It's a tough situation.  On one hand, comments like that may actually be truthful and useful to future users.  But in some cases, such as the person mentioned above, it's just flat out

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:46 AM, niko20 nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: Long press and mark the comment as spam Note that all that really does is hide it from your own view. It does nothing to get it removed from the Market completely.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread { Devdroid }
On 26 August 2010 18:51, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:46 AM, niko20 nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: Long press and mark the comment as spam If would hide it from your sight only. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Stewart
As others have said, it's not overly effective. I wouldn't do it just because I'd want to see if it ever changes. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Footballhttp://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners Fantasy

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: I wouldn't do it just because I'd want to see if it ever changes. I tried with a positive comment just as an experiment. It still shows on the Developer Console, it only gets removed from your device.

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread Doug
Empirically speaking, that seems to be true. But we also know that spam filters need lots of data to work with to be effective. It may just be that Google is collecting enough data to make a strong assertion about what comments are actually spam or unhelpful (since comments != email, we can't

Re: [android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Doug beafd...@gmail.com wrote: It may just be that Google is collecting enough data to make a strong assertion about what comments are actually spam or unhelpful (since comments != email, we can't just use known patterns). I'd like to give Google the benefit

[android-developers] Re: Negative comment causing drop in sales

2010-08-26 Thread abowman
The marketplace should allow developers to easily respond to negative feedback the way Ebay allows sellers to respond to negative feedback from buyers. Right now, it is way too easy for a user to sabotage an application. On Aug 26, 3:27 pm, TreKing treking...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 26,