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Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by ttymck »

nostromo wrote: post #151
fireeyed wrote: post #22

There should be zero stars available for scamsters. Seriously this should be an option. Why should anyone give one star to a scamming firm Robbing Hood which has colluded with their backer Citadel. They have derogatory term for Retail Investors - Dumb Money. Now the 'Dumb Money' has figured out the the hedge funds'rigged game.

This is a pet peeve of mine about star ratings. Visually, allowing 1 to 5 stars inflates the way ratings look, because the first star is always present, even for the worst products. Imagine if it was pie chart or a bar chart: the lowest rating would look like 20%, not 0%. Or imagine a product where 50% of people gave it the lowest rating (1 star) and the rest gave it the highest rating (5 stars). This would be presen…

Why can you not normalize the scale to 0-4 stars?

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by thisiscorrect »

daenz wrote: post #159
alangibson wrote: post #80

One of the good things I see coming out of Robinhood blocking trading, Twitter and Reddit booting problematic users, Parler getting vaporized, etc. is a sudden realization amongst people of just how easily major parts of their lives can be instantly turned off by intermediaries. My hope is that this will drive a reformist movement around digital rights (speech, commerce, etc.) As well as a movement from platforms to…

At the risk of sounding like an "I told you so" type of person, it is frustrating to speak out and see others speak out about future consequences of these kinds of actions, only to be drowned out by people liberally applying the slippery slope fallacy argument.

I've never understood how a slippery slope argument is a fallacy, let alone a logical fallacy (like false syllogism or no true scotsman). The idea is essentially looking at current trends and extrapolating into the future. No prediction is necessarily correct, but it's not necessarily wrong either.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by _ea1k »

alangibson wrote: post #194
echelon wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time I mention this on Hacker News, I get downvoted by the neoliberal fascists that want to suppress the speech they feel comfortable with silencing. Free speech is only free if we allow all of it. Americans have thick skin. It's in our culture. We've accomplished so much in spite of internal disagreement and oppression: voting rights, women's rights, gay marriage (which still isn't enshrined in the constitutio…

I actually agree with your premise, but I don't want to listen to you when you use self contradictory phrases like 'neoliberal fascists'. I imagine I'm not alone. You're getting downvoted because you sound incoherent and unhinged.

To be fair, terminology now is really confusing. I'm still trying to figure out what is anti-fascist about antifa or that really has anything to do with their existence.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by zionic »

afavour wrote: post #154
brink wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Parler incident sent a message across the tech industry that this kind of behavior is acceptable. Whether you liked Parler or not, the lynching of Parler was ultimately a loss for everyone for the precedent that it set.

I’m honestly very confused why people keep trying to draw a parallel between Parler and Robinhood. Beyond “big companies can do whatever they want” there really isn’t much in the way of comparison. And big companies doing what they want is something we’ve known about since around the time big companies first started to exist.

The comparison is not between Parler and Robinbood, it's a comparison between companies that canceled Parler and Robinhood: Sweeping, unilateral, unaccountable power of institutions we had not appreciated the power of previously.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by vkou »

coliveira wrote: post #79

I think it is ridiculous that Robinhood took the matters in their own hands to halt trading on GME. If anyone had to do this was the SEC. It is just outrageous.

But they haven't blocked trading on GME. They still allow selling of GME.

It's pretty blatant market manipulation.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by m-chrzan »

alangibson wrote: post #173
asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely support the notion of moving from platforms to protocols, at least in theory. I do think you're going to run into the need to regulate wherever communication starts impinging on not-purely-informational constructs, like securities. I really hope that gambling on GME is not a "major part" of a significant number of people's lives.

I was thinking more about being able to trade online, not GME specifically. TBH 'protocols not platforms' has become kind of a slogan lately, but history doesn't make it look too promising. Email is a protocol, but it has largely been dominated by Google. A really compelling product can capture a protocol.

Could it be that people are just so used to platforms, that even in the case of the email protocol, they prefer to jump onto the Gmail platform that abstracts away from the protocol and provides a nice, easy to use platform? If so, "protocols, not platforms" remains justified, and proponents might hope that as people get more comfortable with protocols, they will drift away not only from the Facebooks and Twitters of the world, but also the Gmails.

For me personally, even if we end up with large players offering the largest (presumably most product-focused) instances of various protocols (Gmail with email, imagine Tiwtter hosting the largest Mastodon instance, Discord providing Matrix hosting), the fact I have the freedom to federate and set up my own instance or pay a smaller provider that will respect my privacy, is still a much better situation than the current "platforms, no protocols".

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by docmars »

zionic wrote: post #205
sebmellen wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a relevant document posted earlier today at this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942632 . "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech (2019)" Article subtitle: > Altering the internet's economic and digital infrastructure to promote free speech I am somewhat skeptical of crypto, but I do hope that the DeFi ecosystem, 20 years in the future, will act as a democratizing for…

DeFi is a core component of my ETH bull hypothesis. All this decentralized activity requires the purchase of ETH to pay for/transact on.

I'm skeptical of the idea that availability of decentralized services should be dependent on the activity of a market driving it. If for some reason, something unfavorable were to happen with that market, the services tied to it would be in jeopardy.

That seems like a terrifying point of failure to have, unless I'm misunderstanding how it works.

Perhaps a parallel here is: if the fiat markets are struggling, then small businesses may struggle and lack the business they need to sustain themselves due to economic fears and self-preservation, but that business can exist in some form without the market through free trade or other means of currency or agreements to provide products and services, not beholden to the mercy of a volatile, inaccessible digital system that the vast majority of people don't understand very well.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by ttymck »

amelius wrote: post #210
nostromo wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a pet peeve of mine about star ratings. Visually, allowing 1 to 5 stars inflates the way ratings look, because the first star is always present, even for the worst products. Imagine if it was pie chart or a bar chart: the lowest rating would look like 20%, not 0%. Or imagine a product where 50% of people gave it the lowest rating (1 star) and the rest gave it the highest rating (5 stars). This would be presen…

Yeah but if I see 0 stars the result is that I'm assuming that there were no votes.

Many platforms I have seen (Amazon Prime Video comes to mind) use:

**** (XX,XXX votes)

when displaying ratings (meaning average 4 star rating, for XX,XXX total votes) -- it is succinct and informative.

Re: Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store

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Post by donohoe »

fireeyed wrote: post #141

Apple is blocking ratings of Robinhood on AppStore. Coincidence much ? "Its a big club and you ain't in it" - George Carlin

Don't think so. I just rated it now. It seems to work.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/robinhood-investing-for-all/id...

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