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Comment by debugnik

2 days ago

The kind of people willing to leave stars on an app store are already a biased sample.

Yeah, for lower ratings. People leave reviews because they’re pissed, not mildly happy.

  • On iOS at least, an app can quickly ask for a star rating via a modal dialog. No review necessary.

    Thanks to dark patterns, users sometimes think it's asking them to rate their previous experience, or the podcast they're listening to, but those wind up tallied as app star ratings.

How does this translate to apps with low ratings, or something in the middle?