question

Hey Drew. I want to preface this by saying that I think it's neat that you took the "trivia" template and did something a bit more meaningful with it. I like the concept of what you've built, and I think it's a good addition to the ecosystem as a whole. That said, I feel compelled to point out that self-reviewing your skill is heavily frowned upon in this community. There will literally be zero other Alexa users who share your context - as creator of the skill - and so the review is at best white noise, and at worst it's misleading in its bias. I do appreciate that you put some more info in the review (most people who self-review just say something like "Nice Skill!1!"), but that info really belongs either in the description, or in some sort of external documentation. Any chance I can convince you to take the review down?

Yeah, especially as it is the only review, you unfairly game the review system to catapult yourself into the top page.

[b]Yeah - I wouldn't want to "game the system" like that.[/b] After all - it's free - the purpose is to teach young people about how to avoid dating abuse - imagine if my gaming the system were a success?? We might have young people who know about how to avoid abusive relationships! My nonprofit charity might have been successful in increasing awareness about a problem affecting 1 in 3 kids - which receives very little attention in the schools (the majority of teachers haven't a clue what to do in the case a student comes to them asking for help with TDV) - and this free little quiz might be used in the classroom by teachers looking for a free resource (because most school districts provide little to nothing to cover dating abuse). That would be terrible! And clearly this is a topic (and quiz) which has already garnered so much attention on its own ... why promote it so shamelessly? So - it's gonna be deleted. Feel free to post a nice review in its place. Even if YOU don't need the info on that quiz there are countless others who DO - even if they don't know it. (Which is the reason that I made this quiz and have produced dozens of video games about this issue. My only child was a senior in high school when she was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. If somebody had only gamed the system maybe I would have known enough to help her.)

No one is debating the worthiness of your skill, Drew. It just gives conflicting messages for such a socially beneficial skill to be promoted in such a dirty and underhanded fashion. The problem is a general problem, that affects all of us. There isn't really any way to promote your skills. You can't buy advertising for them. You can't even reserve a place at the top of the list. At least you got a mention in their weekly updates. The answer isn't to game the system. The answer is to endless harangue Amazon until they solve the problem.