If a single 1-star rating brings your average rating down noticeably, you've got bigger problems :) In any case, this could be dealt with by weighing recent comments heavier than older comments, no need to remove old comments/ratings. This would be more fair to the customers who took the time to comment, and would still result in an overall rating that better reflects what people think of the most recent version.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Timothy DeWees <[email protected]>wrote: > > Preach IT!!!! I'm glad we can now mark ratings as spam but they still > need to expire. I've released something like 20+ updates to my > application and I am still dinged for version 1.0 because a user rated > me 1 star and said "needs this feature". I've since added that > feature but I'm still dinged for it. > > On Feb 14, 1:32 am, Beshoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > A scenario: > > You release an app... brand new.. tested locally, but not globally... > > you receive some good reviews, some bad -- so you get to work to make > > it perfect. > > > > A month later, the app/game is 1000 times better.... > > > > Problem: Many players have rated you a 1 star and uninstalled. You've > > fixed the problems they've complained about, but you have no way of > > contacting them to let them know that the problem that bothered them > > is fixed.... so you sit there with all those bad stars.... that are > > affecting your CURRENT score, but are irrelevant after all the > > updating you did. > > > > Solution: I propose that comments/ratings expire in about a month > > after the user uninstalls an application. You can even add another > > criteria (only if developer has updated app since comment posting) so > > that you're not deleting useful comments... > > > > This is a hard subject, but I think it can be another big step towards > > a perfect market :) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
