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

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Post by fastball »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #109
fastball wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's a fair point, and I agree with you – I hate it when reviews don't give me (the reader) an accurate picture of the experience I'll have with this app. Two problems though:

1. That's not how people treat reviews (people will leave a positive review if they love the business but the app is crap), so it's misleading to only enforce such an ideal here, with negative reviews.

2. In this case, the business effectively is the app, at least from the user's perspective. The app wouldn't let me even look at GME/AMC today, much less buy it. That's not what I want from a stock trading app, because it's an annoying experience that leaves a sour taste in my mouth, so 1-star it is.

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

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Post by bluetwo »

pgrote wrote: post #102
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…

When all the tech companies merge, they will in turn be bought by Taco Bell.

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

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Post by ben509 »

fastball wrote: post #54
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?

You think Google, the 5th largest company in the world (by mkt cap), has no skin in the game when it comes maintaining the finance industry status quo?

Reasons Google would not want the financial status quo:

1. It tends to retard technical progress.

2. They have to make deals with entrenched incumbents to do finance.

3. There's nothing stopping a hedge fund manipulating Alphabet's stock.

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

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Post by ZachS »

smcl wrote: post #111
mulmen wrote: post #36

Earlier 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.

There’s a way to make that point without being insulting

gaming reviews to extract money is insulting

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

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Post by cabalamat »

p2t2p wrote: post #107
fastball wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Optimistic.

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

Last year Elizabeth Warren called for Facebook to be split up. Facebook censored it.

So things may change suddenly, but in one of two directions:

1. big tech being split up

2. big tech exercising the control they have over politics, by controlling speech, to prevent being split up

The second option would of course be the final end of democracy in America.

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

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

coding123 wrote: post #82

I wonder if the next phase of the internet is for groups of heck, 100000, maybe 1M or even 100M people to organize to take things down permanently. Maybe right now it's like baby steps, but what happens in a year?

The WSB debacle gained momentum because everyone thought they were going to get rich in the process.

I think people are going to become very disillusioned when they realize how much of the information posted to WSB was misinformation. WSB removes posts and comments that don't toe the line that everyone needs to buy and hold GME. Meanwhile, the only way to profit from this trade is to sell at exactly the right time, before everyone else does.

There will also be a lot of frustration and disappointment when various hedge funds announce how they made record profits on the Gamestop frenzy. Some will suffer, of course, but others will make billions.

Finally, living in a world where frenzied crowds conspire to take out services based on shared misunderstandings will not make for great outcomes.

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

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Post by partiallypro »

0-_-0 wrote: post #133
TeMPOraL wrote: post #43

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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...

If you through Trump was bad, just wait until a competent version shows up
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