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

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Post by px43 »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #6

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

Where did you live 10 years ago that wasn't run by corporate greed and corruption, or were you just too young to remember it?

If anything, things are better now than they were 10 years ago, and things were even worse 10 years before that. One reason that things are getting better is that more people are paying attention, which makes that fun paradox where a bunch of people who are new to this whole thing perceive the world as getting worse.

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

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Post by alpha_squared »

newacct583 wrote: post #22

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…

If 100,000 people are each leaving one review about their experience, presumably related to Robinhood's change earlier today to limit certain actions, how does that qualify as spam? Is it because it happened within a short timeframe? I'm sincerely interested in what qualifies as spam in this case given that these are organic, possibly non-automated reviews that map 1-to-1 to a specific user who has installed (and presumably used) the app.

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

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Post by centimeter »

aaomidi wrote: post #38

Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.

It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right social groups.

If money truly equaled political power, we'd look more like Hong Kong pre-1997 (and arguably pre-2020).

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

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Post by mhh__ »

b215826 wrote: post #65
p2t2p wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

R. Stallman did talk about all of that.

But... but... I thought he was a misogynistic pervert who needs to be expunged from the face of the earth.

Can he be both?

He seems like a fucking odd guy, but he's not stupid in any way.

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

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Post by DevKoala »

mulmen wrote: post #36
partiallypro wrote: post #8

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.

You may think reviews are calculated as: SELECT app, AVG(stars) AS display_stars FROM customer_reviews GROUP BY app; It’s actually an ML algorithm that optimizes for revenue.

I love this comment.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ariwilson wrote: post #7

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

I have no screenshot, but:

Right now, the link shows 4 stars and 180,526 reviews. Few hours ago, when I became aware that /r/wallstreetbets are talking about Robing Hood's app, I took a look at that same page out of curiosity. It clocked around 250,000 reviews, with overall rating of 1 star.

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

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Post by ironmagma »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #47
aaomidi wrote: post #38

Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.

Yeah, really. Can anyone point to counter-examples?

There are a few -- Glassdoor, and Google reviews let you post bad reviews of businesses even if they have tons of money. That's not to say I disagree that big money runs things, just that it's not 100%.

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

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Post by fastball »

mulmen wrote: post #36
partiallypro wrote: post #8

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.

You may think reviews are calculated as: SELECT app, AVG(stars) AS display_stars FROM customer_reviews GROUP BY app; It’s actually an ML algorithm that optimizes for revenue.

Does RH have in-app purchases? Otherwise not sure how wiping negative reviews optimizes for revenue.
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