How Do I Get Rid of Bad Reviews??

[MVApple]

well I don't think reviews are entirely useless, but with all the shill reviews going around you have to spend a good amount of time reading through them to get a good idea of what you'll be getting. Sometimes though you just have to take the plunge. It would be great if we could start a sub forum with just reviews, one thread per app, at least then mac rumors readers could get decent reviews.

 

[GoCubsGo]

I for one look for reviews that show me the reviewer download the application and used it to know how it truly functions. But regardless of what I say I would be pissed to know that the developer could delete my review. That's stupid.

 

[DipDog3]

But regardless of what I say I would be pissed to know that the developer could delete my review. That's stupid.

I don't want to have legitimate reviews removed. If someone actually bought my app and then wrote a bad review, then that's life. I just can't stand people who drop one stars just because they got bored with facebook. You need to buy it, use it, and then review it!

 

[SilentPanda]

Well we as a community can do a few things...

1) I think we mostly agree that you should only be able to post a review if you've purchased the application. Even if you've played the "not iPhone" version of something the iPhone version will most likely be different. Feel free to send Apple some feedback. I'm sure they can easily rearrange feedback so people that have purchased the app get their reviews posted first. Or if they were feeling really daring, remove reviews from people that never bought it. People will cry censorship for a day then everything will go back to normal.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

2) Review apps that you've purchased. We (as in people) have a habit of usually giving mostly negative feedback. Make a point to give positive feedback too. Make sure you note in your review that you have used the app and that you've used it longer than 3 minutes.

 

[jstanier]

Strangely while reading this thread I noticed that [app]Task Focus[/app] on the US iPhone store just got a 1/5 review because for some reason the application description isn't showing... which is entirely not my fault! It's all entered and available, but it seems like the store is having a problem at the moment.

This sucks since it brings my one 5/5 review down to 3/5 all because of one person that didn't buy it encountering a problem with the store, and not my application Sigh.

I wish reviews could only be given by people that have downloaded the application.

 

[bluenoise]

I would like there to be some kind of notation/icon next to a person's review showing whether or not they bought the app. I don't mind seeing legitimate complaints about cost ("I didn't buy this as I think $49.99 is too much for yet another flashlight app"). I hate seeing the poor reviews where someone says something like, "I have no idea what this app is for but I like bananas." If there was such an indicator, I could at least ignore the ones that didn't purchase the app, but I'd still have the option of seeing why someone didn't buy it.

 

[whooleytoo]

Give every single app on the App Store, bar yours, a terrible review.

If anything gets Apple to address the flaw that people can review a game without downloading it, that should do it.

 

[skubish]

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bottom line...good apps sell. Ask the Trism guy how he is doing? Focusing on good apps and not gaming the system.

 

[Elven]

Also makes browsing through apps hard work, and time consuming because you cannot take reviews into full account for what is a good/bad app.