18 thoughts on “Gruber’s solution to “Rate my App” pleas”
“Gruber’s Solution”!? WTF? I said the exact same thing on Twitter three days ago! 🙂
Totally agree. Awesome idea, I’d never thought of doing that, but I think its a great way to hopefully get some developers to stop using the tactic. Will be doing this from now on.
Cause it’s such a big friggin deal to hit the “no, thanks” button, or to leave a real rating/review.
What’s wrong with the “tactic”? One tap to dismiss a reasonable request seems – reasonable.
Wow, get over your sense of your own sweet precious time, folks. It’s a simple and easily ignorable attempt to make a living in a cutthroat industry. If you hate it so much, petition Apple to remove the functionality. If you can get off your high horse long enough to do so, that is.
1 star is a real rating/review.
dick
The fact is most users never review an app unless prompted and a well done prompt (e.g. only prompts regular users of the app) brings in a lot of mostly positive reviews.
Fuck you. I ride a low horse and it IS my precious time. MY PRECIOUS TIME. I don’t owe anybody any courtesy for piling on the craptastic app bandwagon, hoping to pimp out my data like it was a shipping container full of preteen sex workers. Remember: MY PRECIOUS. Not OUR precious. PRECIOUS NOT FOR SHARING. 1/5.
If the amount of time it takes to hit “No thank you” or whatever the cancel button on such a prompt is is so precious to you that it merits being typed in all caps, then you ride a very high horse, sir. Your horse rides a high horse.
And yet you have enough time to go and leave a one-star review, the digital equivalent of throwing a rock at the developer, in retaliation to this supposed waste of your time? Shame on you.
Yet again, Gruber talks about something he has no business talking about. He has no clue.
Yeah great. Leave your 1 star reviews for apps you are using for weeks for nothing, if the developers that sweated blood to make them have the temerity to ask you to do the slightest thing in return.
Because you are the one doing all the hard work here, right?
Enjoy your abandonware.
What a wanker. I just tried to give Vesper 1 star. Sadly to do this, I have to own it. Almost tempting but then the asshat would get my money.
Hardly, given that you generally only see a rating prompt for an app you’ve been using repeatedly for many days.
Presumably you find something good about it then, even if it would kill you to say so.
Nagging trumps the good, obviously.
On the linked blog, I can see one that would rate a 1 star review immediately: the one with only “now” and “later” options.
One out of ten apps on the page where the dev is actually being a nuisance. Sure, take a swipe at them if it makes you feel better.
That’s essentially what this leads to, though. If a dev does something you don’t like, whatever the case may be, just one star their work. A terrible, malicious practice, but that’s what he’s advocating.
“Gruber’s Solution”!? WTF? I said the exact same thing on Twitter three days ago! 🙂
Totally agree. Awesome idea, I’d never thought of doing that, but I think its a great way to hopefully get some developers to stop using the tactic. Will be doing this from now on.
Cause it’s such a big friggin deal to hit the “no, thanks” button, or to leave a real rating/review.
What’s wrong with the “tactic”? One tap to dismiss a reasonable request seems – reasonable.
Wow, get over your sense of your own sweet precious time, folks. It’s a simple and easily ignorable attempt to make a living in a cutthroat industry. If you hate it so much, petition Apple to remove the functionality. If you can get off your high horse long enough to do so, that is.
1 star is a real rating/review.
dick
The fact is most users never review an app unless prompted and a well done prompt (e.g. only prompts regular users of the app) brings in a lot of mostly positive reviews.
Fuck you. I ride a low horse and it IS my precious time. MY PRECIOUS TIME. I don’t owe anybody any courtesy for piling on the craptastic app bandwagon, hoping to pimp out my data like it was a shipping container full of preteen sex workers. Remember: MY PRECIOUS. Not OUR precious. PRECIOUS NOT FOR SHARING. 1/5.
If the amount of time it takes to hit “No thank you” or whatever the cancel button on such a prompt is is so precious to you that it merits being typed in all caps, then you ride a very high horse, sir. Your horse rides a high horse.
And yet you have enough time to go and leave a one-star review, the digital equivalent of throwing a rock at the developer, in retaliation to this supposed waste of your time? Shame on you.
Yet again, Gruber talks about something he has no business talking about. He has no clue.
Yeah great. Leave your 1 star reviews for apps you are using for weeks for nothing, if the developers that sweated blood to make them have the temerity to ask you to do the slightest thing in return.
Because you are the one doing all the hard work here, right?
Enjoy your abandonware.
What a wanker. I just tried to give Vesper 1 star. Sadly to do this, I have to own it. Almost tempting but then the asshat would get my money.
Hardly, given that you generally only see a rating prompt for an app you’ve been using repeatedly for many days.
Presumably you find something good about it then, even if it would kill you to say so.
Nagging trumps the good, obviously.
On the linked blog, I can see one that would rate a 1 star review immediately: the one with only “now” and “later” options.
One out of ten apps on the page where the dev is actually being a nuisance. Sure, take a swipe at them if it makes you feel better.
That’s essentially what this leads to, though. If a dev does something you don’t like, whatever the case may be, just one star their work. A terrible, malicious practice, but that’s what he’s advocating.