I find the reviews helpful, tho I take them with a grain of salt. It's true there's a lot of garbage tho. So many reviews like this:
> 1-star
> Used to be awesome but has a bug I don't like now!
> This app used to be amazing but now I want some feature that it doesn't have. Rating this 1-star as a way to strong arm the developer into adding my favorite feature. By the way I'll forget to come back and update this review should I actually get what I want.
Paying customers asking for feature via review is part of the reason why the review system is great. if you just want to make passive income by creating an app that does one thing in one particular way that's fine but you should be upfront about the deal. not being upfront about not providing feature updates or rather extensions should mean a worse review imo
No it is not, it incentivize users to leave inaccurate information as a form of making feature requests. An app that is highly useful and crucial to a users work flow, but is missing a certain feature is a 4 star to this user, but some people leave a 1-star to draw attention to the one feature they really want. A user who passionately wants a feature to be implemented clearly values this app more than 1 stars worth. The users who do this are holding the app rating hostage and I find this behavior utterly unethical.
Its useless for other users to read. A 1 star review could mean "I was paid to review this", "I don't know how to use computers so I will blame the app" "some very obscure feature no one uses isn't in the app" or "the app is genuinely bad quality".
> 1-star
> Used to be awesome but has a bug I don't like now!
> This app used to be amazing but now I want some feature that it doesn't have. Rating this 1-star as a way to strong arm the developer into adding my favorite feature. By the way I'll forget to come back and update this review should I actually get what I want.