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A personal observation in the Chrome store. I created an extension which I published in the Chrome store. I did notice a curious statistics with another simila
by gorhill 11y ago
A personal observation in the Chrome store.
I created an extension which I published in the Chrome store. I did notice a curious statistics with another similar purpose extension, which is also quite popular -- both are over 1 million users:
The ratings-per-user ratio for the other extension is almost 5 times that of my extension.[1]
I can't figure any other convincing explanation for this other than the other extension is buying ratings. If there is an alternative explanation I would like to hear it, but I can't think of one -- five times is way beyond one would expect IMO.
[1] number of ratings / number of users.
- SalmoShalazar 11y agoPerhaps the other extension is prompting the user for a rating like you see so often in Android/iOS apps. This tactic genuinely works. If not, then yes, it's plausible that they're buying ratings.
- gorhill 11y agoGood point, I didn't think of this... I looked and it does indeed invite users to rate it in at the top of its options page. So as far as I am concerned this explains the difference. I could probably quantify how much this works by adding the same sort of invitation to rate but this would go counter to the spirit of the project, so I will pass on the experimentation.