5 stars question about rate-my-app HOT 8 OPEN

The idea is that what you as an app author want is not just rating, but good rating. This would reflect the quality of the app and thus help you sell the app better. If the user does not agree that your app deserves 5 stars then the user will decline to rate the app and in the next prompt [s]he will be prompted to give you feedback, which will then help you improve the app to the point of deserving the 5 starts in one of the later releases.

Does this make sense?

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Somewhat, but still this inflates the market place rating system by motivating only to leave feedback when a user wants to rate 5 stars.

I could not test the control on a device, only on emulator, so I don't know if it's possible for the user to also give 4 stars if he wants, or that it's all or nothing.

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User can give any rating.

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Ok, then it's just my personal preference of disliking to 'influence the users give a 5 star rating.
Glad to see the user can just rate what he wants.

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For what it is worth, I 100% agree with umito. It may be cultural - but this made me think less of the app. I also think that if I start seeing that posted message "This is an awesome app, I use it every day" (or whatever it was) I will start to ignore it. I don't have a solution, but I do see it as a problem.

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How about this: change the button to "Rate me" and the body of text above it into something like this: "We would appreciate a good rating in the store, it would help us attract more users. Please give us a good rating by tapping "Rate me" or if you think we should be improving the app, tap on "No thanks" and then send us your feedback"

That's an awfully long text, likely to get worse in German. Any suggestions for a better string?

Or, a "rate me" alternative to "rate 5 stars" which could be selected via a book property like DriveHighRating

If (DriveHighRating)
Use5StarString()
Else
UseRateMeString()
Endif

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From: Hamish Willeemailto:[email protected]
Sent: ‎30.‎12.‎2013 0:16
To: nokia-developer/rate-my-appmailto:[email protected]
Cc: Lucian Tomutamailto:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [rate-my-app] 5 stars question (#20)

For what it is worth, I 100% agree with umito. It may be cultural - but this made me think less of the app. I also think that if I start seeing that posted message "This is an awesome app, I use it every day" (or whatever it was) I will start to ignore it. I don't have a solution, but I do see it as a problem.

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#20 (comment)

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There is no panacea. How about:
Select "Rate me" if you like the app or "No thanks" to send improvement ideas and feedback.

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Yes, best would indeed just to remove the '5 stars" part of the message, and keep everything else as it is.
So then you would get: 'We'd love you to rate our app." and the 'rate 5 stars' message to become 'rate' or as suggested above 'Rate me', or to keep in the plural sense of the whole tool: 'Rate us" or "Rate {0}"

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