I have to say I agree - we have racist abuse on our comments and as far as I can tell there's no way to remove it. We've had numerous emails from people asking us to remove the comment but we're powerless to do anything!
Google - please take note, allow developers to mark comments as abusive! On Nov 26, 8:31 pm, Max Binshtok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Googlers, please read! > > I recently posted my application and while overall the comments were > very useful, there is abut 30% which arespamand one or two very > offensive comments. > If google can't/won't moderate the comments, WHY can't we as > developers do that? Mystery to me... > I'll tell you the truth, I'm really got disappointed with how the > market is managed by Google. > They are slow, irresponsive to developers and user needs etc... Does > google become bloated "can't do anything without going over 100 heads > of management people" kind of company... I'm really disappointed. > > We are required to pay money to prevent "spamapps" but google does > nothing to prevent VERY offensive and irrelevant comments. How's that > for good judgment? > > Googlers, please read! > > On Nov 11, 12:09 pm, Robert Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Agreed. Something needs to be done. I think google could allocate > > one employee to scanning thecommentsfor now and perhaps banning/ > > warning users who made inappropriatecommentsfrom commenting? > > > On Nov 11, 8:29 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ratings are always a highly subjective thing which is why AndAppStore > > > hasn't included them . > > > > My 2/5 might be your 3/5 for no other reason than I've seen better > > > elsewhere that you haven't, your 4/5 may be my 2/5 just because you like > > > a colour scheme that I don't. You can't say people can only rate lower > > > than 3 if they type a longcommentbecause you'll end up with junk > > >commentsjust to pad the space, and if you're going to say 300 > > > characters for below 3, why not 300 characters for above 3 so people > > > have to justify high rating to avoid attempts to bump apps to the top of > > > the popular list. > > > > Al. > > > > Protocol-X wrote: > > > > Yes it is rediculous, > > > > There is swearing, racial slurs,commentsabout body parts, all > > > > randomly out of nowhere. Google needs to kill thecommentsfrom being > > > > displayed so that only the app creator can see them and the rating > > > > system is defunk as well because people are ratting 1;'s because they > > > > dont understand apps or there is a german online book being rated ones > > > > because people are commenting its stupud because its in german... what > > > > do u expect even the descripion is German if u cannot see this was in > > > > German dont rate it poorly.. these are all situations and issue that > > > > need to be worked out. or require atleast a 300 charactercomment > > > > inorder to rate lower than a 3 so people are not just rated unfairly > > > > because of immature people. > > > > > On Nov 11, 5:56 am, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I can see this as a good idea so I'vecommentratings into > > > >> AndAppStore.com, sorted the displayedcommentsby ranking, and show 5 at > > > >> a time. > > > > >> It took me a couple of hours to put the code together, so I'd hope that > > > >> the guys at google can do something similar for marketplace in the next > > > >> few days. > > > > >> Al. > > > > >> plusminus wrote: > > > > >>>Commentswith bad ratings get hidden and need to be expanded by the > > > >>> user --> Almost no one will see them anymore > > > > >>> +1 forComment-Rating-System > > > > >>> On 11 Nov., 00:10, zl25drexel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>>> well the ratings/commentsnow are just the same as the ratings/ > > > >>>>commentson youtube. does any1 ever reads them? > > > > >>>> On Nov 10, 4:29 pm, "Andrew Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>>>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Disconnect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>>>> wrote: > > > > >>>>>> ..or just punt out users for ToS violations. > > > > >>>>>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:24 PM, ryaninc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>>>>>> I wholeheartedly agree. Thecommentsare invaluable for determining > > > >>>>>>> how well an application works, but it's almost to the point where > > > >>>>>>> the > > > >>>>>>>commentsare worthless because there's so muchspamand completely > > > >>>>>>>off- > > > >>>>>>> topic discussion. > > > > >>>>>>> While I don't likecommentmoderation as a whole, there should be > > > >>>>>>> automatic filtering at the very least. Maybe Google could > > > >>>>>>> implement a > > > >>>>>>> filter that would deletecommentswith swear words, or even just > > > >>>>>>> turn > > > >>>>>>> them into asterisks. > > > > >>>>>>> There really needs to be a solution to this, it's really getting > > > >>>>>>> bad. :-( > > > > >>>>> Perhaps an implementation similar to many online retailers where > > > >>>>> users can > > > >>>>> say whether a review was helpful. Commentsthat others found > > > >>>>> helpful in > > > >>>>> making their decision could be floated to the top (or at least > > > >>>>> supply a > > > >>>>> sorting option/preference) so that it's easier to find more useful > > > >>>>> information. Similarly, acommentwith enough bad feedback could be > > > >>>>> put up > > > >>>>> for some sort of review, and if deemed acceptable, the offending > > > >>>>> user could > > > >>>>> havecommentprivileges banned for some period of time. > > > > >>>>> -- > > > >>>>> Andrew Burgess > > > > >> -- > > > >> ====== > > > >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > > > >> company number 6741909. 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