alt Hacker News> But your paid for app does request a rating when using it?
Yes.
> That’s what people call a nag screen
No. Where do you get "screen from?
Ironically, there are some comments here that suggest I do the something that I'm in fact doing already:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099655
> So put a "hey, a rating really helps" somewhere in the app that doesn't interrupt?
> The bottom of the dashboard. Top of settings. A banner that shows up after a while. Let me permanently say no; none of the passive-aggressive "maybe later" shit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102435
> Well, not covering content helps.
People read the single word "nag" and assumed something much worse than the reality. If you define "nag" as any request for a review, regardless of the form in which it appears, then you could say that it nags, but as soon as you start talking about a nag screen, covering content, a modal dialog, etc., that's a totally inaccurate depiction of what my app does.
Do you seriously not see how this misunderstanding is coming about though?
If you write a blog post over a negative review accusing you of nagging, I would expect you to say “actually I’m not really nagging, I just have a line saying to please leave a rating in my app” if that’s the case. If you instead double down and make excuses and advocate to just ban the reviews because you don’t like user reviews anyways, it sounds like you’re actually wrong and the rating is correct.
And I’m not surprised that readers don’t proactively go out and look for your app to check themselves before criticizing you.