Recent content by elBradford

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    Google Play makes it really easy to game the ratings

    The reddit response was crazy, they offset his ratings with literally hundreds of 5 star ratings, which I admit many were probably undeserved. But I got a lot of honest ratings and great feedback. I'm on my mobile phone, but you can look it up by searching for "Streamie" on Google Play. Edit...
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    Google Play makes it really easy to game the ratings

    Here's the basic points: An unscrupulous developer can do the following to a) inflate his own ratings and b) destroy the ratings of competition. This is happening to me right now (I authored the reddit thread). This is the process: 1. Buy app. 2. Rate app. 3. Sign into another Google account...
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    Google Play makes it really easy to game the ratings

    I posted this over on reddit last night and it exploded over there: My app is getting 1-star ratings from another dev : Android I was wondering if there were any devs here who could weigh in. In my opinion (and maybe only because it affected me so much) this is a huge loophole Google has...