The Connect IQ Store is getting worse by the day by a few developers who dump a shitload of *** watch faces

This will help, but the devious will eventually find ways to circumvent this barrier too.

I'm going to post a free watch face, put the unlock code in this post, and direct users to vote. I also call on other developers who are affected by this to launch a campaign to guide users here to understand the seriousness of this issue. Hopefully this will get the attention of the Garmin authorities. Let them solve problems faster.

I like your idea but the lack of response from Garmin makes me doubt this will make any difference.

It's kind of a trap 22, 'cause you assume that some users will even find your newly uploaded watchface. If they do that makes you lucky, but this thread unnecessary for your watchface :) If they won't find it then nobody will see your link to this thread...

But I also think that lack of interest from Garmin makes it not very likely to happen. See for example how many votes the top feature requests got : https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports and even though more than a year passed neither of the top 5 were addressed by Garmin (maybe naps are getting implemented nowadays)

We can also try to send an email to Garmin's customer service and ask them to convey our appeal.

good luck

Thank you, if you have a problem, then please try it. Although the chances of getting the authorities to take it seriously are slim, if you don't try, you'll never get results.

What if we all spam the Garmin customer service about this, maybe than they understand our problem with the spam of rubbish in the store

We all? In this thread there are less than 50 comments, that's less than 50 developers. Now go do some research to give some estimation on the number of developers who ever (or even just last year) uploaded an app. The proportion will give you an indication why Garmin doesn't seem to care.

You could also organize a "strike" or whatever. Tell every developer not to upload any new apps or updates... Obviously the bad guys won't join, so the decrease of uploads will be so small that even if you told Garmin to look at the graph they won't notice it IMHO...