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Re:iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews by nodamage on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:43PM (#13477687)
I've found that many "prompted" reviews are generally of low quality and lack detail, and essentially flood the listing with useless information. (Who cares if there are 500 reviews each saying "Good app!", that tells you basically nothing.)

In 7 years I've never prompted for a review in any of my apps. Users that write reviews do so genuinely, and if they are happy, they often leave extremely detailed feedback explaining why, and that is much more valuable to me.

Re:iOS and MacOS Developers Can Now Respond to Reviews by k-mcgrady on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:14AM (#13479940)
It's not the review that's important, it's the * rating that shows in search results etc.