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I've got several recommendation about this book "Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers", hope it might help
I connected Developer Support several times and suddenly it have helped. I wish good luck and to be brave for everybody with the same situation!
There are people out there = in Review Team or personal haters in the world?

If I switch developer account from personal to corporate, will things get better or worse (the firm may pay more to keep good rating)?

I've answered about who and why wrote such things, but now Play Market hid it! Other people can't see my answer. I can't understand why I can't defence my personal name? Why every potential user should read bad words about me?

Even if my request in Developer Console now with the status "rejected"? I can't send such request again in Developer Console. Tried to write them on email, but that's general support, not the review team. Even if they by default believe in anything written (terrible app, terrible support, everything is bad), why offend founder is OK? Still can't believe
yes, but only via Developer Console. Should I ask all mark it as inappropriate in Play Market? Sometimes Play Market upvoted some review, which have only dislikes and put them above positive comments. I fear to make things worse

Ask HN: Google Play allows to call female founders “useless woman”

Hi everyone! Last week I’ve got the personal hater, who wrote me couple messages via social network from the fake account and started to blame me. I tried to answer politely, but he(she) can’t calm and promised to write about me bad reviews everywhere. Next step was 1-star review on Google Play. OK, maybe he(she) doesn’t like my app, but review started with the statement, that I’m “useless...

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