Hi, I like the idea of the rating mails. In fact the rating mail notified me that my software got an auto-created page on downloads.maemo.org. But it's true that these mails are pretty useless spam without the actual rating.
Martin 2009/11/11, Cornelius Hald <h...@icandy.de>: > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 10:15 +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Tim Teulings <r...@edge.ping.de> wrote: >> > >> > I'm intersted in getting to know that somebody rated my application >> > since >> > I'm intersted in improving the rating of my applications. Getting a mail >> > makes it possible to react on ratings (without regulary polling the web >> > pages which would be a pain for >10 packages) and for example contact >> > the >> > author to get more information about the reason of his rating and to >> > find >> > ways to change the application so that he would increase his rating. >> >> Except the thread is about *anonymous* ratings without comments. You >> will know that your overall rating may have changed, but you may not >> know which direction (especially if you have lots of votes already) >> and you do not have a mechanism for contacting the author or gaining >> any additional information. >> >> The emails in question are, literally, a notification that your >> overall popularity has either gone up a bit, down a bit or unchanged >> (but not which one!) > > Exactly, thanks Andrew :) If there is any useful information inside the > mail, I'm super happy to receive it. But right now there is just no > information. So maybe at least add to the mail the rating that this > person (even if it's anonymous) gave. > > And thanks Ferenc for the information in you first mail! > > Also instead of making it user configurable it could be enough to give > those mails a distinctive title. Then people can easily filter them if > they are not interested. Right now its not easy to find out if this > email provides a comment or not. > > Thanks! > Conny > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
