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Maybe it's a Saturday night thing but the discussion for this part mostly has comments that rival the ignorance of the OP, e.g. "The sad fact is that most peopl
by Jun8 13y ago
Maybe it's a Saturday night thing but the discussion for this part mostly has comments that rival the ignorance of the OP, e.g. "The sad fact is that most people are awful", "you could block that country from your app", all based on simplistic anecdotal analysis given in the post.
Before you arrive at such a sweeping conclusion, you should perform at least a little bit of statistical testing, e.g. see diziet's analysis on this page.
Two further comments:
1. The behavior mentioned in the post does seem to be a real thing, as evidenced by the many entries in the Turkish zeitgeist site eksisozluk: https://eksisozluk.com/yorumum-gozuksun-diye-1-yildiz--4110946?p=1 https://eksisozluk.com/yorumum-gozuksun-diye-1-yildiz--41109..., the first entry under this heading is dated 11/13/2013 so it seems to be a new meme. Also, the entries suggest that the behavior seems to be focused on Google Play rather than the Apple Store.
2. This shows a significant drawback of Google Play's selection of comments to display. Looking at the selected comments for the same game on the Apple Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wheres-my-water-2/id638853147?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wheres-my-water-2/id63885314...) I don't see this kind of 1 star ratings.
- clarky07 13y agoYou wouldn't see these ratings on the Apple Store unless you are in Turkey (or changed your device's region) because Apple separates app store ratings. US devices only see US ratings. Turkey only sees Turkey ratings. EDIT: Also, Apple doesn't display ratings like Google does, so there is clearly no reason for them to leave reviews like that.
- wyager 13y agoThat's clever. It accounts for cultural differences in rating systems. A 3/5 isn't a good rating in any country I've lived. A 5 is good. There isn't really a rating for "exceptionally amazing". But I'm sure somewhere, a 3/5 means "pretty good" and 5/5 is reserved for exceptionally positive reviews.
- zobzu 13y agofor the record in the us: 5* good 4* ok but has some issues 1* sux 2 and 3: irrelevant
- madeofpalk 13y agoNot just cultural differences. I've always hated Yelp and found it useless until I went on holiday to US. In Australia, there's just so few places on it its kinda boring.
- wyager 13y agoI'm still not a big fan of Yelp (you can buy a good rating), but it's the only popular review app that I know of.
- chmars 13y agoHow can you buy a good Yelp rating?
- michaelt 13y agoThere are reports that Yelp ad sales people claim if you buy advertising with them they can make bad reviews go away [1]. Of course, it's possible the sales people are just claiming that to make the sale and don't actually deliver on it. There are also people on ebay [2] offering five star reviews for around $15. [1] http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-of-extortion-20/Content?oid=1176635 http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-... [2] http://www.ebay.com/sch/Web-Computer-Services-/47104/i.html?_nkw=yelp+review http://www.ebay.com/sch/Web-Computer-Services-/47104/i.html?...
- weinzierl 13y agoI ran into this cultural differences while hiring and they are significant. Did you live in France? 20 is for the pope, 19 for the president and 18 for the headmaster, they say.
- Jun8 13y agoYou're right. Here's the link to the game on Turkish Store: https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/wheres-my-water-2/id638853147?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/wheres-my-water-2/id63885314...
- mrtksn 13y agoHi, I am aware that the post on my blog is pretty shallow but my intention was not to dive deeper into the problem anyway. As you confirmed, the phenomenon is real. I am an IOS user and I was shocked when a friend told me about the comments people are making at Google Play, so I quickly put together a blog and wrote a post that dramatically exposes the problem. The idea is to catch attention of the people so that those who have the necessary tools and time can investigate it thoroughly. The problem is real and hopefully somebody in the position to fix it would see the post.
- diziet 13y agoSample size for Where's My Water is pretty small, though. 6 reviews in the last 90 days in the Turkish Store ( https://sensortower.com/ios/us/disney/app/wheres-my-water-2/638853147 https://sensortower.com/ios/us/disney/app/wheres-my-water-2/... ) Compared to the US, which received a lot of negative reviews (https://sensortower.com/ios/us/disney/app/wheres-my-water-2/638853147 https://sensortower.com/ios/us/disney/app/wheres-my-water-2/...) and has a larger sample size. It could be a much more recent behavior.