“Are you enjoying this app?”

@SecurityWriter Also I'm less inclined to do something if nagged to do it!

• I don't even have an account with which I could rate it anyway...

@SecurityWriter In our application we've designed and implemented a set of features to not only track your usage, frequency cycles and other key metrics for our sales and marketing teams... but we've also configured the systems to be beholden on it... neat huh?

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We have a few questions for you, about the activity we have monitored on your devices. Care to... explain?

@SecurityWriter I was having moisture problems in my crawlspace, hired a place to come out and do some repairs and install a sump. They did a great job, crawlspace is dry as a bone now.

But they asked me to leave a review on their Google maps page, and when I didn't, they called me repeatedly asking me to do so.

I tried explaining to them that I never leave reviews for any reason, but they kept pleading with me. I eventually resorted to blocking their number.

Apparently, this bullshit is spreading out into meatspace. We have really constructed a horrible place to live for ourselves.

@SecurityWriter Ha! Just happened to me too. Outlook invites you to send "internal feedback" if you say no, as opposed to leaving a five-star review if you say yes.

@SecurityWriter "Rate 1 - 10, Would you recommend Microsoft <insert product here> management console to a friend?"

I need whoever greenlit these feedback boxes at Microsoft to understand: Nobody goes into their management consoles for shits and giggles. We go there because we have to. There is no "recommending" it to anyone.

@SecurityWriter

"How can I help you?"

GTFO of my face, worthless chatbot. I just got here.

@SecurityWriter @bitprophet no. It’s not a game, or Netflix, I’m just trying to order my groceries. I don’t need your app to be enjoyable, I just need it to be functional.

Worst of those of these are when the question is ‘please review the app’ and the options are ‘yes’ or ‘later’…

@meadow @SecurityWriter that’s what I do too.

@SecurityWriter A while ago, some authentication token application asked me if I was enjoying it.

Nobody would use this application of their own free will. It’s only ever used because your workplace or bank or whatever puts it in the way of doing what you actually want to do. The best rating they can ever hope for is “inoffensive”. And interrupting me further to ask for a rating *makes it offensive*!

@SecurityWriter @RonJeffries I’d love to go back to the olden days, where it was only apps asking that question.

@SecurityWriter
I have a policy. If an app asks me to leave a rating, they get the lowest possible rating.

No exceptions.

Those tactic skews ratings and makes them completely useless as a means of telling if an app is worth using or not. I'm tired of it.

@SecurityWriter "which answer will make you leave me the fuck alone?"

@dhemery @SecurityWriter @RonJeffries
It all begins with one question. We tolerate that one question. It doesn't stop there. Not one. Ever

@g @SecurityWriteri hate being prodded into being free labor for all these companies, i would not do it for a gift card so my default review is as low as i can go for everything when you prompt me cause fuck your scores forever

@dcbuchan @SecurityWriter Maybe Later!!!

@bob_zim @SecurityWriter This, but Teams/Outlook. Am I enjoying this app? No, I am not.

And while I know it’s a waste of my time, sometimes I provide feedback just as my tiny way of fighting back.

@yiorgos The moment I get any kind of unasked for "feedback" I block and remove everything to do with whatever it is. And I'm just a cranky old lady in the Rust Belt.
I HAVE NO TIME FOR YOUR SHIT, whomever wrote this garbage asking me stupid fucking questions about nothing.

@SecurityWriter Another one, and I'm looking at you Fing, is would you like to try our desktop app which only runs on Windows and Mac?

@nuintari @SecurityWriter unfortunately, in this timeline, the score on Google Maps can make or break a local business, so I can see where they're coming from.

@SecurityWriter So very this.