New Connect website Reviews includes ratings with no text - Useless Noise IMO

Look at the link I provided and tell me that all these ratings with no text is not useless noise both for the user and the developer.  That is what I am reporting.

apps.garmin.com/.../6d73089d-5886-4f49-a914-0b467da88f17

That’s what I said.

But showing empty text doesn’t really reduce the fake account problem. It’s possible it make it worse (it might encourage people to put better effort into fake reviews). And it doesn’t appear it was something Garmin “tried”. 

Showing the empty reviews does make it much easier to identify unethical developers who rate their own app.

pstoppani said:

Look at the link I provided and tell me that all these ratings with no text is not useless noise both for the user and the developer.  That is what I am reporting.

Again, complaining about it serves your own interest (hiding your scummy self-reviews). You’ve managed to sabotage your argument. At this point, that’s hard to ignore. 

Why would I care about my own reviews showing now if I can easily delete them?  Maybe jumping off the high and mighty pedestal and focusing on the actual problem would be more productive if you want to improve Garmin's Store.  And, I agree they should not allow devs to rate their own apps.  Frankly, the main reason I've done it in the past is to give the Store a big middle finger for being of such poor quality.  So, they should fix both issues.

I'm still trying to understand how you get a review for each 25 downloads, when no other app in the store that I can find is anywhere close to that

I'm using the Review API that Garmin added a while ago.

How often are you having the user post a review?  And there is no text allowed, correct?

Sound like a bug in the new API to me!

90 days minimum.  Yes, you can add text but not many do.

You're asking your users to give your apps a rating every 90 days? Oh boy, I'm not a user of your apps, but if I were a user I would find that super annoying!

//Just my point of view.