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

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Post by centimeter »

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.

It's a good idea to stop and think why megacorps all uniformly support modern social justice movements. Beneficial side effects include:

* Racial diversity decreases worker cohesion and therefore unionization risk.

* Dozens of reasons to get canceled means that anyone who has a social following can be torn down if they pose a threat.

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

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Post by Hasnep »

ironmagma wrote: post #79
JKCalhoun wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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%.

Entirely anecdote, but I've heard of companies asking all their employees to give them good Glassdoor reviews.

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

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Post by fooqux »

glenvdb wrote: post #53
cmdli wrote: post #16

Honest question: why does Google care here? They don't really have a stake in the GME situation, with no short or long positions (I'm assuming). They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Why protect Robinhood at all?

This reminds me of the "review bombing" debacles that have plagued Steam over recent years. Valve implemented a system to detect these patterns and discard the ratings. Valve had no particular stake in the games being "bombed", but they do have a stake in the trust people have in their platform. People want to know if a game is truly good or bad and not have to wonder if it was the victim of some kind of vendetta. At…

I don't think they remove the reviews outright though. They detect it, label it, and offer both a "recent reviews" and "all-time reviews", as well as a visual graph to show you the trend.

A far better approach than just removing the reviews outright if you ask me.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by bjourne »

fxtentacle wrote: post #21

Did anyone actually think that online ratings represent anything meaningful? It's numbers in a database controlled by the seller who makes more money if the numbers are better. My insight that it's all fake came when I tried to purchase a baby carrier on Amazon and found a product with hundreds of 5 star reviews, but all the pictures were teenagers with their plush toys...

Some Google stooges must have thought ratings are meaningful or else they wouldn't have erased the Robinhood app's ratings.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

MauranKilom wrote: post #45
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…

> 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?

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

They retracted that later.

"Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that 56 percent of Robinhood users hold GME stock. This is incorrect, based on a misreading of a statistic on Robinhood. Motherboard regrets the error."

See the bottom of:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ak7y/robinhood-stops-users...

They haven't provided an updated value. However, it's not hard to believe a significant chunk of Robin Hood users owned some GME today.

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

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Post by tesmar2 »

Avicebron wrote: post #23
drstewart wrote: post #15

Private company, they can do what they want. Or suddenly no?

Just because a company can does what it wants doesn't mean there can't be vocal discourse denouncing that opinion

The sudden reversal is just amusing.

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

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Post by paxys »

cmdli wrote: post #16

Honest question: why does Google care here? They don't really have a stake in the GME situation, with no short or long positions (I'm assuming). They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Why protect Robinhood at all?

They don't like that apps on their store are being review bombed. That's really all it is.
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