[echoangle]

How is that baseless?

If someone says “hey, this guy has a nag screen” and your response is “but everybody does it!”, it’s not baseless to think you have a bag screen without checking your app. If you don’t, I would expect you to write “the reviewer here is wrong, I don’t have a nag screen”.

[lapcat]

The App Store review in the screenshot used the phrase "ratings nag on the app interface." It did not say "nag screen".

My app does have a ratings request on the app interface, which does not interface with the other controls on the app interface. It does not have a dedicated ratings request screen.

People are just assuming "nag screen" based on the single word "nag", and even that word is questionable in my opinion, but I do indisputably present a ratings request.

[echoangle]

It would have helped to write that when talking about the review.

[lapcat]

Not really. It's a red herring.

Suppose for the sake of argument that every review in the App Store for every app was like the one in the screenshot, a complaint about ratings requests. How would that be helpful? How would anyone know whether, aside from the ratings requests, the apps were any good or not? How would those be good reviews? You might defend the reviews as accurate and justified, but they would still be largely useless, because they're so narrowly focused.

I'm happy to receive 5 star reviews for my apps, but honestly, some of those are poorly written too, overly vague, or too narrowly focused, occasionally inaccurate, claiming my app does something it doesn't actually do!

The underlying point, though, is that Apple is relying on user reviews as a poor substitute to cover up its own shortcomings in reviewing app submissions. If an app doesn't do what it says, or it's user-hostile in some ways, how are those apps even getting through to the store in the first place?

[tensor]

The only thing I agree with you about is that I'd have preferred Apple to not have approved your app because of the nag. I don't care if it's a screen or just a constant message. It's a nag.

[lapcat]

So... you want Apple to remove practically every app from the App Store? Or how exactly do you think my app is unique in the this way?

[shaewest]

Are you against Apple removing apps with dark patterns from the App Store because 'Everyone does it'?

Adding requirements for apps to remain on the App Store is fully reasonable, and keens the ecosystem usable for users.