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

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Post by fooqux »

mhh__ wrote: post #87
whoisjuan wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies. Lol. Sure they aren't.

Maybe, but Google are in a different league to these funds.

Google the corporation? Sure.

Many of the managers and workers at Google? Quite likely have a stake in what goes down on Wall Street.

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

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Post by pgrote »

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.

I wish I could find it, but 10 years ago, probably longer now, there was a prescient video where there turned out to be only 4 tech companies left. Something like amazgooglesoft or something. The narrator had a deep voice and I think it was funded by a media company.

Edit: Found it through the keywords, "old prediction video where amazon microsoft google buy everything" lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s&feature=emb_titl...

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

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Post by myself248 »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #31
degenerate wrote: post #3

Well, that was incredibly quick. Big money talks FAST.

Or, just possibly, a hundred thousand one star reviews in one day trigger some sort of automated spam system and not everything is the work of shadowy big financial institutes?

If that's the case, then the spam system is at fault and needs fixing. Actual users should be able to leave actual reviews about the app's actual behavior without being flagged as spam. As long as they're not violating other terms like vulgarity or whatever, those reviews are valid and removing them means the system is doing the wrong thing.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

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%.

IIRC from recent HN threads, Glassdoor is considered to be completely gamed, and the company is in on it.

See e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789865.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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%.

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

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Post by teruakohatu »

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…

There is a huge difference. Review bombs are by people who usually have not played the game/app but post negative reviews on mass because of something usually unrelated to the game itself. In the case of Robinhood they are written by people upset that they have been monetarily screwed by the app. There were millions of people in WSB, 100,000 negitive reviews is only a fraction of that.

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

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Post by p2t2p »

fastball wrote: post #40
p2t2p wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They'll just play themselves into regulation eventually. Once FTC comes after them the only people to blame for it are themselves.

Optimistic.

May be, but if "split up big tech" becomes a viable path to being elected things may change _suddenly_

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

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Post by _9hey »

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%.

The article is about Google wiping reviews, and I’ve worked for a company that asked employees to leave good reviews on Glassdoor

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

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Post by kinkrtyavimoodh »

fastball wrote: post #64
optimalsolver wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't like their platform being manipulated by organized downvoting. Not rocket science.

Manipulated? I just gave a 1-star review on the iOS app store and am currently pulling all my money out of my RH account, because I don't like how RH is behaving. People all thinking something is shit is not manipulation, its just collective agreement.

To play the Devil's advocate here, my personal intuition is that App reviews should be for how the apps perform, and shouldn't be used as proxy for reviewing those businesses. If the app is buggy or broken or whatever, it makes sense to give a low rating. I am not sure it makes equal sense if people suddenly realize they don't like the company who has made the app.

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

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Post by tqi »

MauranKilom wrote: post #27
ariwilson wrote: post #7

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

There are over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as of right now. The majority of them joined this week. 2% of them voting on the app doesn't sound like bot spam to me.

Reddit is not exactly known for preventing spam account creation...
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