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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#41
There is some kind of revolution coming. The big catalysts are things like censorship on social media and wall st changing the rules on the retail investors.

But actions like these only mount the problems. Why on earth would google remove these reviews? What Robinhood has done this week is an extremely reviewable act.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#43

How were these not overall real reviews? If they can't prove otherwise, this just entrenches the idea that big money is vastly more powerful than small voices. I honestly don't see how if this trend continues how things will end well. It's not just about Robinhood, etc, it's deplatforming, using AWS, etc as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well.

Me neither. This month is crazy with very visible examples of blatant, unethical overreach of prominent companies. This thing absolutely adds up in people's consciousness. Sure, it decays over time, but right now, it adds up faster.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#45

HN has lost its mind. Everything is suddenly a conspiracy against the noble individual investor. Story after story voted up to the front page with minimal relevance. I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? No. This is spam. It's just spam. People are angry, and this is a tool. And it's treated by Google exactly the way any oth…

> were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review?

According to Motherboard, the majority of RH accounts hold GME.

There's also over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as we speak (most of them from this week). What percentage of those do you think would be "eligible" (according to your own criteria) to leave a legitimate review?

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#46

100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW also the link provides no proof

Legit reviews and bot spam both sound like plausible explanations. I'm sure Google has the server logs to figure that out with reasonable certainty, but unfortunately we don't.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#48

HN has lost its mind. Everything is suddenly a conspiracy against the noble individual investor. Story after story voted up to the front page with minimal relevance. I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? No. This is spam. It's just spam. People are angry, and this is a tool. And it's treated by Google exactly the way any oth…

A honest review is not spam.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#49

HN has lost its mind. Everything is suddenly a conspiracy against the noble individual investor. Story after story voted up to the front page with minimal relevance. I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? No. This is spam. It's just spam. People are angry, and this is a tool. And it's treated by Google exactly the way any oth…

You don’t need a GME position to think less of Robinhood after today

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

#50

If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.

If anyone thought that big tech wouldn't do this 10 years ago they were naive.

Big is they key word. Big everything does the same thing. Which is why we need to not let anything get big.

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