Spam reviews, Review Manipulation, Bot reviews. Where are you? Garmin

There are so many threads in this forum pointing out spam reviews. But I am ashamed Garmin seems to make no progress.

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/293972/there-are-a-lot-of-spam-reviews-in-china-mainland-garmin-ciq-store-can-ciq-team-delete-it

For example:

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/91b4ae71-6afd-4deb-9e48-3023c0a5fa4b

This app always on the top but it has only 33 reviews.

Comparing the trending apps, the app doesn't have too many advantages. Maybe you would say the design is quite subjective.

The downloads over comments metrics are telling the truth.

e.g.

Enduro Like Plus 58684 download 376 comments , comment rate 1/156

Digital Watch II 33/10193. 1/308

Infocal V2 82/4468 1/54

Instinct Mission 609/129470 1/202

Quatro 2093/323693 1/154

Besides the comments for a lot of apps in the trending app list under apps.garmin.cn are looks fake, by bot.

You may wonder why I post this to unveil the tricks. I am a developer as well and most of my apps are made for monetization. A normal ranking system are benefit for most developers.

I wanna keep it fair as much as possible. So we should boycott spam、tricks

弄虚作假, 无耻

Ghostme over 2 years ago

completely agree！but GARMIN pretended not to see it.especially that of IQ store of China mainland.

and I think GARMIN definitely has ways to stop these acts.but GARMIN just dont want to。

li2niu🏃🏻 over 2 years ago in reply to Ghostme

It is like a cat-mouse game. It need a lot efforts indeed but all deserves. If garmin keeps a blind eye on it, Bad money drives out good. I will migrate to apple someday.

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago

33 reviews is not bad. I only have 13 reviews with 40k+ downloads. The question is if they're authentic.

li2niu🏃🏻 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

The icons, the fonts, the data metrics nothing special. But this app always keeps in the top2 postion, it is abnormal.Interesting.

li2niu🏃🏻 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

I am gonna find some tricks to make some of my app on the top1. And make it opensourced. SO all of you can use those tricks. I wonder if garmin will cope with it.

But it is spam. I feel ashamed for the inhonest behaviors. Besides, this guy is Chinese, he seem to reproduce his tricks in apps.garmin.cn. I am even more ashamed.

HE IS CORRUPTING OUR CHINESE DEVELOPERS' REPUTATION TO SOME EXTENT.

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to li2niu🏃🏻

The fact that you don't like the design doesn't mean others don't like it.

Ghostme over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

the fact is that the developer himself publish some reviews and at the next day he delete them and re publish them.this is definitely manipulating the reviews and rating system。I have found many times。and he is doing this process with some bot script。

li2niu🏃🏻 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Well, it is not preception.

Comparing the trending apps, the app doesn't have too many advantages. Maybe design is a subjective judge. The downloads over comments metrics are telling the truth.

e.g.

Enduro Like Plus 58684 download 376 comments , comment rate 1/156

Digital Watch II 33/10193. 1/308

Infocal V2 4468/82 1/54

Instinct Mission 609/129470 1/202

Quatro 323693/2093 1/154

The data is not that convincing.

li2niu🏃🏻 over 2 years ago in reply to Ghostme

Interesting skills. I wanna have a try and make it opensourced to promote ciq evolution.

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to li2niu🏃🏻

This data is very convincing. It just tells the opposite story: look at all the other apps you included above, from all of them the red one has the least comments per downloads. And even that is 10 times higher than my app. So according to this the red app is the least suspect of faking reviews, and all the other apps in the top 5 have higher chance...