I left a one star this morning. I deleted it and added a new one with different text string
Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#132Private company, they can do what they want. Or suddenly no?
Few more cases of this, and finally people will understand that this argument is bullshit for platforms this size. Quantity has its own quality, as the saying goes.
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#133How 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.
Someone could become US president riding this public sentiment. Let's see if it decays in 4 years...
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#135How 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.
> it's deplatforming, using AWS as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well. This, so much - imagine you believe "they" stole the election, "they" got your favorite social media shut down (parler/gab/whatever), "they" blocked the buying of options, "they" then liquidated your position as the price predictably fail and you got margin called, you complained but "they" got your feedback deleted. Ouc…
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
or Mussolini style Italian Fascism. Corporatist economics and authoritarianism
You're being downvoted, but you're not really wrong. It might present differently, but the reality is that the government and large, powerful corporations are separate entities more or less in name only. If the interests of a large corporation serves the interest of the people in the government, they'll move every lever of government they can to support the corporation, and vice versa. That's basically exactly what t…
Indeed. What separates fascism from authoritarianism is the merger of state and corporation. If you mix the convergence of state and government along with the effective dissolution of the rights to privacy and the rights to free speech, along with the post-truth nature of so much of today's media (remember WMDs? It's not just Fox News), the argument that we're approaching some kind of fascism isn't completely devoid of merit.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Someone could become US president riding this public sentiment. Let's see if it decays in 4 years...
They could use a catchy slogan like "drain the swamp"...
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#138I think it's becoming crystal clear Americans live in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
> Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
From 2014: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This is definitely a thing. The startup I used to work for did this a ton before they were acquired.
They would even request it during all-staff meetings.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#140They had over 300k rates and 1 star for solid reasons