<story><title>Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)</title><url>https://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>This article is from 2014, right now my annoyance is more all these apps with low self esteem.&lt;p&gt;Always this stupid question &amp;quot;do you like this app&amp;quot; and then redirecting me to the play store to vote if I say yes or the support site when I say no. And to make matters worse they keep doing it every few days. Once is passable, over and over is NOT.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve started to give 1-star reviews to these apps. So sick of this behaviour. Especially many of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s corporate apps do this (like outlook or teams) and most people download these because they need them, not because of some rating.&lt;p&gt;edit: I mean I do the 1-star thing with the apps which keep asking. If they ask once I just don&amp;#x27;t do the review (If I really &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; the app I would have left a 5-star review anyway). But once it comes up again I do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakub_g</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; important thing for the apps because by default only unhappy people go to Play Store and give 1 star. Then it looks like your app is crap and the competitors are way better.&lt;p&gt;In prev job, we had few ratings of our app, and avg. of 3.5. After adding the question, we got thousands of 5 stars and went to avg. 4.7 in a few months.&lt;p&gt;Of course the app should give you &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t care&amp;quot; option, and store your answer to not repeat the question.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)</title><url>https://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GekkePrutser</author><text>This article is from 2014, right now my annoyance is more all these apps with low self esteem.&lt;p&gt;Always this stupid question &amp;quot;do you like this app&amp;quot; and then redirecting me to the play store to vote if I say yes or the support site when I say no. And to make matters worse they keep doing it every few days. Once is passable, over and over is NOT.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve started to give 1-star reviews to these apps. So sick of this behaviour. Especially many of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s corporate apps do this (like outlook or teams) and most people download these because they need them, not because of some rating.&lt;p&gt;edit: I mean I do the 1-star thing with the apps which keep asking. If they ask once I just don&amp;#x27;t do the review (If I really &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; the app I would have left a 5-star review anyway). But once it comes up again I do this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ziml77</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how much teeth the Play Store rules have, but I wish it was against the ToS to display things like that. Or at least disallow having an option that expresses dissatisfaction while bypassing the Play Store review system, but sending any positive response along to it to boost the application&amp;#x27;s rating.</text></comment>