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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On miércoles 8 de abril de 2015 17h'54:04 ART, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> OK. I don't think we should add more ways of calculating things to solve
> these problems though. I think there are a few distinct problems here to
> solve, and sorting is only one of the issues. There's also the social
> problem of people trying to use reviews as ransom for features or bug
> fixes. That is not how reviews should be, and I think the solution to
> that is mostly one of policy, and not technical implementation.
>
> For this I think we need a way for developers to report/flag
> inappropriate reviews/ratings on their apps.

How should I review? I don't ransom reviews at all but I don't give 5 stars 
to something that I feel has things missing and not stated in the 
description (most apps have poor descriptions so I can think anything I 
want of the intention of the app).

I review as I would review a restaurant; e.g.; a gourmet restaurant serving 
regular beers (or wine depending on how you take gourmet) won't get 5 stars 
but maybe 4 instead and comment mentioning that if better beers were 
offered the place would be so much better. I do the same for apps.

Scoring and staring systems are entirely subjective to say the least, but 
Niklas' request of using ponderation for sorting makes perfect sense to me 
regardless; I don't think we should focus too much on a lone example to 
divert or expand the focus of discussion, it is a different request and 
different thing to solve.