Tuesday, June 14, 2011

[android-developers] Re: Google removed 10 mallware apps - I'm affected. Please help

But since it is run, as you yourself so pointedly proclaim, by "^&#*$^&
% idiots", how can you trust their judgment concerning whether or not
any specific action really IS a TOC violation?

"Keyword stuffing" is by nature objective. Except, perhaps for really
blatantly irrelevant keywords like the keywords spammers use. But for
a flashlight app, I can see a lot of keywords one person would
consider relevant that another would not, such as 'safety',
'convenience', 'crime prevention'...

But I just cannot imagine such capricious behavior coming out of an
experience online retailer like Amazon or getjar.com. I can only
imagine a rather different set of problems coming out of them;)

On Jun 14, 3:21 pm, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You have used keyword stuffing by your own admission, which is a TOC
> violation, you didn't get deleted "for nothing."
>
> Yes, they should have given you a chance to clean up your act,
> absolutely, and not just delete your account, but it certainly did not
> happen for nothing.   But this is how the Android Market works -- I
> would not even attempt any TOC violations, because I see it every day
> that it's run by Fucking Idiots (TM), so I would not expect a
> reasonable course of action from them.
>
> Honestly, good luck trying to reinstate your account.
>
> On Jun 15, 3:55 am, "n.a" <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, it's like a death camp.
> > The experience for the small developer is quite bad. Unfortunately,
> > the small developers have made the market as successful as it is
> > today. I've been with Google from the beginning and have another very
> > successful app - Bebbled (over 1.3 million downloads), which is gone
> > too. I even received a free nexus 1, because, as they said, I've
> > helped develop the market. Now I get a deleted account out of nothing.
>
> > On Jun 14, 10:29 pm, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Jun 14, 8:49 am, a1 <arco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I really doubt it has anything to do with this malaware report, judging on
> > > > appbrain page your app/account was removed because you violated Market
> > > > Content Policies (http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html):
>
> > > > "Product descriptions should not be misleading or loaded with keywords in an
> > > > attempt to manipulate ranking or relevancy in the store's search results."
>
> > > > There were similar take downs (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=41d29...
> > > > )
>
> > > Which underscores the point that Android Market looks like its run
> > > like a North Korean death camp.
> > > You're out with no explanation or grace period to remedy the problem,
> > > and no regard towards the gravity of the infraction.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

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