>From my experience, auto filters have limited effectiveness, though definitely better than nothing at all.
Ideally, there would be a "Report Abuse" button that acts similar to the spam feature, and in both cases if a Google account is reported a number of times it is reviewed by market support for inappropriate activity (I'm not sure if this is already the case for the spam feature). If a malicious user starts picking on another by reporting all their comments, the data from this can be used to review the reporter's account instead... People abusing the system should get a warning followed by a ban on the market, or some similar course of action. Of course, if this is too much to implement, an auto-filter should definitely be considered as an alternative. There are lots of reports requesting this in the market forum. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Completely agree. I'm amazed there isn't an auto-filter going on - it > would be easy to catch obvious swear words like the ones you quote > above. > > When I've seen abusive comments, the poster usually tries to disguise > the swear words by changing a letter or by using asterisks instead, > because of fear of being moderated I guess. > > But it looks like the moderating is not happening at all. > > > > On Apr 8, 2:48 pm, mask <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is an excerpt from an application comment: >> >> "This stupid fucking shit isn't downloading/installing! What a waste >> sherelle 2009-04-08 04:00:44" >> >> As a developer, I would like to know when is Google going to start >> moderating such illiterate and ignorant people from commenting on an >> issue developer has no control. At least, the curse words should be >> removed or 'moderated' for keeping the developer community sane. Keep >> in mind, in the long run its the developers and their application that >> will eventually sell and market android platform. >> >> As a developer, all ignorant and abusive comments are least >> productive. Also Google's inaction in removing abusive comments are >> totally unacceptable. >> >> As a developer, I request Google to take immediate action by removing >> comments which are abusive or totally remove commenting but keep the >> star rating until Google provides a complete solution. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
