I think what we're seeing is just a "feature" of a subjective rating system. I posted the scheme I use to rate apps a few weeks ago at http://alsutton.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/marking-on-the-googles-android-mark et/ so that if developers felt I was being unfair on their app they could challenge me using my own post as evidence of why they felt I had unreasonably rated their app. Some users will see giving competing apps a 1* as a true reflection of their opinion that compared to their favourite app another one is just a useless distraction for users.
It's one of the reasons that AndAppStore allows users to say if a comment is useful or not, that way you get an indication of what is considered a fair comment and what's considered a blatant trashing of a useful app. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Sent: 10 April 2009 00:02 To: Android Developers Subject: [android-developers] Re: Ultra-Competitive FireWallet supporters Hi John, This is James Gramata the creator of FireWallet. I really do apologize for users of my product behaving in this way. I definitely do not condone these actions but people are just expressing the way they feel and that is understandable. I have also had a number of comments/ratings on my product asking me not to charge and to keep my product free or that other competing free applications are better while giving me a rating of 1 star regardless of how they actually felt about the quality of FireWallet. These are kind of spam but at the same time they are also legitimate ratings. We as developers just have to hope that the good ratings/comments will outweigh the negative. Thanks, James Gramata On Apr 9, 8:57 am, John Lauricella <jjlaurice...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Somebody named "Peter", who has a comment on the FireWallet finance application review page on the Android Market that says something like this "Firewallet is the greatest program ever, the best finance program, and the best application period, for Android.." 5 STARS, went on a competing finance application (BudgetProt) review site and wrote "Firewallet is way way better" 2 STARS!!! > That crushed the review stars average for the application and IS HURTING SALES. > This is highly confrontational behaviour, and will lead to retaliation. It was not a real review, it was a way to hurt a competing product, by LYING. > > PLEASE STOP HURTING OTHER DEVELOPERS IN YOUR RACE TO OUTCOMPETE. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you.http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Redisco... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
