Yes, I guess I understand what you have tried to say. And it's exactly my opinion.
My rant was not against the system. It was against the lazy users and how the system is sometimes handled. Especially the functionality testing has sometimes a to high weight. In my opinion you can do a full feature/bug check only with simple software. But, we don't own a Device from Apple.
And how long will you run the functionality test at a software like KOffice?

The functionality check happens mostly at extra-devel. If a developer has enought good feedback and he has considered to promote the package to testing the fundamental functionality should already work.

Personally I miss this standards at ovi. But perhaps it's only my own opinion.

Ouh, I'm sorry. I'm not a native speaker. I didn't mean it like that.

Let my correct my sentence:

Conclusion: I like more the Idea to let a professional, skilled tester look for problems with my application without the possibility of a 100% functionality test instead of forcing 9 clueless community members to vote for my package and in the end to promote it, with my final (own) 10th vote, to extras.

I wouldn't ask for a paid tester. Sorry.

What I tried to say is: In my opinion it is dangerous to ask all the time the users of your own application to vote for your package. They are attached to the developer because they want updates and more features. "Could you do me a favor? - Yes, of course. I like your work." And in my opinion the risk is very high to get this way votes from total noobs and in the end a low quality package promoted to extras.

What about to create a rule that a package in testing needs at least at minimum a single positive vote from a senior tester additionally to the other votes from the normal users?