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The most obvious webspam is made more difficult by the fact that newly-created webpages are heavily penalized in Google's web search engine. Weighting for accou
by JoachimSchipper 16y ago
The most obvious webspam is made more difficult by the fact that newly-created webpages are heavily penalized in Google's web search engine. Weighting for accounts and applications, and letting comments from earlier versions carry over ("here's what people thought of earlier versions of myapp:") would help. Probably.
- Groxx 16y agoI don't think it would help here, though; by changing that one number, they're releasing a new application, not a new version. That way it appears back up on top in the new app list. Comments wouldn't / shouldn't carry over. Persistent developer comments / ratings could be useful, though of course they'd suffer from the same ills that befall individual application reviews. I sort of wonder why I haven't seen any system which shows the overall developer rating alongside all their applications...
- JoachimSchipper 16y ago[I don't think you'll be seeing this, but in any case...] I thought about penalizing new apps for that reason - sure, you can rename your app to get rid of the reviews, but you'll have a harder time making it to the top of the lists.
- Groxx 16y agoI read through older comments for reasons just like this :) I wonder if a week-delay would solve it. A new submission is penalized, it slowly rises up the "new apps" list, and after a week it pops up at the top, similar to how most systems handle "new" entries. At worst, people who don't read will be annoyed that their released-on-xmas doesn't appear until just before new-year's. At best, you've just made app-spamming far slower (minimum 7x).