Tip for template store reports

[Josué García]

Hello everyone
In order to maintain a more functional template store without duplicate macros, trivial macros etc.

when they report a macro in the template store, they are clearer in the reason why they are reporting, for example in the exact copies, if it is possible to add the ID or URL it would make it possible for us to speed up the cleaning of the store by being able to validate the reports more effective.

 

[JA-Translator]

Hi Template Moderators,

I've posted a message in the Japanese Forum to notify Japanese people of the template maintenance.

I've asked to try to write in English on the report; however, someone may report in Japanese and if you need to know the details more exactly, let me know. I believe I could help you with the translation.

(I will try my best, but if I can't give you a quick response, I'm sorry about that.)

 

[Josué García]

Thank you for keeping us up to date, I am aware of the large amount of garbage that is in the store but repeatedly I cannot eliminate them because they do not have accumulated reports
It is time to review the list of reports again in order to eliminate the absurd garbage of the store in collaboration with the user reports

 

[Jacob L]

Thank you for keeping us up to date, I am aware of the large amount of garbage that is in the store but repeatedly I cannot eliminate them because they do not have accumulated reports
It is time to review the list of reports again in order to eliminate the absurd garbage of the store in collaboration with the user reports

How to find the list of reports?

 

[JA-Translator]

I tried reporting some to clean up the store.
It's hard to judge as trash.

 

[TechValleyJeff]

Thank you for keeping us up to date, I am aware of the large amount of garbage that is in the store but repeatedly I cannot eliminate them because they do not have accumulated reports
It is time to review the list of reports again in order to eliminate the absurd garbage of the store in collaboration with the user reports

Thank you for your hard work and dedication, JosueG28!

 

[TechValleyJeff]

How to find the list of reports?

Maybe someone might write a script to

• 1) Convert to json;
• 2) MD5 each file or Diff them;
  • If MD5, you have a unique string;
    • Sort or Unique file;
  • If Diff;
    • Sort or Unique file

 

[JA-Translator]

We can delete the Macros following the criteria below in the Template Store.

The description is nonsense and just typing random texts.
It's obviously irresponsible behavior.
(See the screenshots)

Even if I look at the macro, I can never understand what the macro is used for.

That'd be good help to clean up the Template Store.

What do you think?

 

[Endercraft]

The description is nonsense and just typing random texts.

People do this because the description has to be at least 20 characters long..
I don't understand what the point of uploading a macro without explaining what it does is..

 

[Dm114]

We can delete the Macros fellowing the criteria below in the Template Store.

The description is nonsense and just typing random texts.
It's obviously irresponsible behavior.
(See the screenshots)

Even if I look at the macro, I can never understand what the macro is used for.

That'd be good help to clean up the Template Store.

What do you think?


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You are definitely right!

 

[Josué García]

We can delete the Macros fellowing the criteria below in the Template Store.

The description is nonsense and just typing random texts.
It's obviously irresponsible behavior.
(See the screenshots)

Even if I look at the macro, I can never understand what the macro is used for.

That'd be good help to clean up the Template Store.

What do you think?


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I've been fighting against this user for a couple of weeks haha

 

[JA-Translator]

I don't understand what the point of uploading a macro without explaining what it does is..

Is there a rule that you can unlock the limit of macros if you upload more than 5 macros? Is the rule still valid?

Updated: Sorry, it's my misunderstanding.

 

[Endercraft]

Is there a rule that you can unlock the limit of macros if you upload more than 5 macros? Is the rule still valid?

For a moment I thought you found a loophole but you need the pro version to upload on the template store.
Unless you ask someone else to do it..

 

[JA-Translator]

I've been fighting against this user for a couple of weeks haha

Oh.... thank you for your effort and hard work.
I wonder if it's possible to just ban such a irresponsible user like a spammer?

I think we can do that.
We can talk to the developer to hear his opinion, can't we?

Otherwise, the number of such pointless template will never be decreased.

 

[Josué García]

Oh.... thank you for your effort and hard work.
I wonder if it's possible to just ban such a irresponsible user like a spammer?

I think we can do that.
We can talk to the developer to hear his opinion, can't we?

Otherwise, the number of such pointless template will never be decreased.

Yeah eventually I do but I didn't want to bother him on his vacation, I would also like to be able to leave a comment on why the template was removed

Sometimes they upload 10 macros, I delete 9 and in the last one I leave a comment that they document their macro so that it is understandable for other users or otherwise it will be deleted but it only won to be ignored

 

[Endercraft]

I wonder if it's possible to just ban such a irresponsible user like a spammer?

Even if it's possible they can just create another account.
From what happened with @bewafa it seems that the ban is not applied directly on the purchase itself (so the order id) or on the email address if pro was purchased outside of the play store. Maybe this would be more effective.

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I wonder what would happen to pirate users however.
From my experience when using a pirated copy and submitting a bug report the order id is "Purchase Info Unknown" - although this is from a bug report created at Jul 24, 2021 at 8:06 PM. So if there was verification then that may help against that (it was confirmed that it's possible to upload with pirated versions because again @bewafa was able to).

 

[JA-Translator]

Yeah eventually I do but I didn't want to bother him on his vacation,

Yes, you are right.
I mean "not right now".
We can wait for him coming back from his vacation.

I would also like to be able to leave a comment on why the template was removed

How nice of you!

In the first place, such an irresponsible user should never be allowed to upload templates.

 

[Endercraft]

Yes, you are right.
I mean "not right now".
We can wait for him coming back from his vacation.

This confused me a bit in this thread it says until the 8th of August :

Away on holiday until 08/08/2023

Hi all, Just a note to let you all know I will now be away on my summer holidays and during this time I won't be contactable or doing any work. I'm taking two weeks this year so I will be back on Tuesday 8th August. As usual I will have tons of emails and bug reports on my return so please bare...

www.macrodroidforum.com

And yet when I reported a bug, it said until the 24th ?
Did I miss something ?

 

[Qarboz]

I think Jamie has finished his holidays, he posted several times yesterday

 

[JA-Translator]

We can delete the Macros following the criteria below in the Template Store.

The description is nonsense and just typing random texts.
It's obviously irresponsible behavior.
(See the screenshots)

@MacroDroidDev
If you have time and if you have a look at my posting above, that'd be great.

Without any exceptions, can we set a rule to delete the macros uploaded by irresponsible users (trollish uploads)?

That would help to decrease junk macros.