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

Post by bonoboTP » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:06 AM UTC

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Money. These people are fixing to lose to much, they'll pay their way out any way they can while they still can.

I get RH might be paying money to cleanup play store reviews, but how much is enough to justify the negative PR ? There is another angle though - may be RH or some higher power is threatening to sue Google if they didn't help cleanup based on their own terms, which might have clause of active sabotage - I am sure they claim this is one such event.

Post by buttholesurfer » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:06 AM UTC

Post by alistairSH » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:07 AM UTC

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Citadel is a hedge fund that owns Melvin Capital Management. Melvin is a $GME Short Seller that is predicted to loose BILLIONS due to people taking the free market back. Citadel owns the app Robinhood. Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed. How in the world is that NOT market manipulation?

Does Citadel actually own Robinhood? I couldn't find any source on that.

Post by jjdin14 » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

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I think it’s more likely emergent behavior born of individual executives making decisions that benefit their image and career, rather than some conspiracy. Having a diverse team looks good and deflects the political eye of Sauron from the largely white male upper management types, who are de-facto racists/sexists/etc in the pop culture lens. Who knows, maybe some of them genuinely believe that preferential hiring of…

As a (very!) low level manager, I’ve been espousing that diversity prevents groupthink for years. If we have too much groupthink, we risk driving off a cliff, high-fiving each other the whole way down.

Post by SquareWheel » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:09 AM UTC

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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…

Valve did that for games that had fake reviews though. Getting your margin calls discarded out of hand and preventing buys on cash accounts is not the same as a game getting poor reviews because they had a policatally charged character.