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

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

1996 wrote: post #62
partiallypro wrote: post #8

How 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…

Agreed, if you keep demonstrating that might makes right, eventually people will act on in.

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

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Post by bilekas »

RobinHood has aspirations of an IPO. I think it's fair to say they've lost the confidence of their audience up to 90%.

I honestly don't think it was their call. But highlights the demand for a decentralised market... Honestly, the people have spoken.

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

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Post by _jal »

syops wrote: post #284
tclancy wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Think of how dumb the average American is. And then realize half of them are dumber than that ."

The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

Because lord knows, nothing would George Carlin's act funnier than... a better grasp of statistics.

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

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Post by bg4 »

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

That requires self-awareness and maturity, however.

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

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Post by malwrar »

ttt0 wrote: post #216
malwrar wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> I think it’s more likely emergent behavior born of individual executives making decisions that benefit their image and career, rather than some conspiracy. https://archive.fo/1khJw#selection-1877.0-1877.86

Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea there was evidence of this being real.

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

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Post by elihu »

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?

Google makes a lot of money from app developers. Perhaps they decided that the cost to them of angering app users by deleting negative reviews is less bad than the cost of app developers leaving their platform because Google won't protect their reputation (whether the negative ratings were deserved or not). App developers can watch this and rest easy that Google has their back in this (even if they don't on other things).

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

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Post by bilekas »

partiallypro wrote: post #8

How 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.

All of this very impressive, community, unpredictable, sentiment driven market has proven is that even the platform those cowboys and girls are trading on are owned.

The claw's in deep.

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

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

px43 wrote: post #223
jhardy54 wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a specific metric you're thinking of? My understanding is that income inequality is at an all-time high, and I'd be very surprised if it were worse 10 and 20 years ago. Examples: https://equitablegrowth.org/eight-graphs-that-tell-the-story...

I was mostly speaking in terms of corporate crime/greed and the general public's willingness to let it slide, which is admittedly a pretty hard thing to quantify.

But why do you believe that it was worse 10-20 years ago? How can you tell?

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

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Post by jonp888 »

grecy wrote: post #226
aaomidi wrote: post #38

Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.

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?

> Robinhood banned the purchase of $GME shares, while selling was still allowed

They had no choice. They had run out of capital to execute the orders they were getting.

They allowed people to unwind their existing positions, but not to create new ones. Considering trading was still going on elsewhere, not locking people into their current positions would have been worse.

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

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Post by Alupis »

croissants wrote: post #271
Alupis wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell, "1984" Stallman, like most of us (and nearly all prominent historical figures) can posses both positive and negative traits simultaneously. The good isn't always outweighed by the bad, and vice versa. Nuance is a difficult thing sometimes...

This isn't doublethink, because "he's weird and unpleasant" and "he has insightful ideas" aren't "two contradictory beliefs".

One can simultaneously be a genius and a misogynist. To some people, the former is unacceptable so long as the latter exists.

To understand an individual can indeed be both is the doublethink.

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