Who Failed English?
April 6th, 2009
I received a poor rating on my State Capitals application from "Raymond". He gives only 3 stars and writes (in the Android Market):
"You may ace your geography test, but you fail English: the correct spelling in this context is 'capitol'."
Actually, I am correct and Raymond is wrong. The capitol is the building in which a state legislature meets. The capital is a town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
I used a dictionary and confirmed this before I wrote the app. If only I had his true identity, I could contact him about his mistake. For now, the best I can do is report his comment as spam.
Posted via email from Eric Burke
Yeah, isn’t this one-way-communication/punishment splendid?
I think anonymous posts should be possible, but not the default.
Great app btw. It does one thing and does it well.
Why even mark it spam? I 3 isn’t too bad for a bad review, and the people who read it will (usually) recognize Raymond is an idiot.
Not to say there shouldn’t be other categories than “spam”.
Another sad part to this is that most people reading the review will not know the difference and accept that the reviewer is right about his erroneous correction. These days it seems more rule than exception to butcher the English language, and to not understand it happened.
Maybe it’s a conspiracy to force us to learn and adopt Spanish.
¿qué?
I’ve found Raymond! Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man was called Raymond… so this guy is like him. only without the mathematical abilities.
BTW i found that reporting spam is very effective. I’ve have a comment on fotki app says “sucks hard” and one start. I’ve reported as spam – i think in 4 hours that comment was gone