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

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:01 AM UTC

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simias wrote: post #129

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Being condescending is not constructive. Can you substantiate your claim? I'm sure that there are many tweaks to the way apps are ranked, but I would expect that the rating itself would, indeed, mostly be a star average.

I'm pretty sure it is, with the addition that when they detect brigading of the rating in a certain time interval, they remove ratings made in that time interval. They will probably reenable ratings for the Robinhood app when things calm down, so if you want to give it a 1 star rating just wait a few weeks and try not to forget about it.

Post by bonoboTP » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:02 AM UTC

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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.

Post by ttt0 » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:02 AM UTC

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animal_spirits wrote: post #61

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Google doesn't want fake reviews on the play store. Its as simple as that. Google is removing these probably because they look like fake reviews, and don't care enough to spend time and resources investigating it.

How do you define "fake review"? People are not happy with a company and its app and they are "punishing" the company, what is the purpose of reviews if not this?

Post by pclmulqdq » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:03 AM UTC

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Post by jannes » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:03 AM UTC

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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.

R. Stallman did talk about all of that.