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

Post by argomo » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

tinyhouse wrote: post #250

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.

Big money? What big money exactly? Do you really think Google care about RH and its money? They do it to prevent organized activities of rating manipulation. The RH case might be justified but Google cannot be the judge. If tomorrow the corner store across the street receives 100K reviews in 1 hour, Google would respond in a similar way.

Post by dmoy » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:44 AM UTC

teruakohatu wrote: post #106

glenvdb wrote: post #53

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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…

There is a huge difference. Review bombs are by people who usually have not played the game/app but post negative reviews on mass because of something usually unrelated to the game itself. In the case of Robinhood they are written by people upset that they have been monetarily screwed by the app. There were millions of people in WSB, 100,000 negitive reviews is only a fraction of that.

Post by dang » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:44 AM UTC

aaomidi wrote: post #38

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

Post by edgyquant » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:46 AM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #291

syops wrote: post #284

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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.

Mode, median, and mean are all accurately described as averaging techniques. Mean is the most commonly used average, but they are not synonymous.

Post by jodrellblank » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:47 AM UTC

boardwaalk wrote: post #347

jodrellblank wrote: post #272

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This is why I hate Carlin's stuff, it's so fitting for the internet tech sites because the main point of it is jeering and sneering at people who aren't you, who aren't woke. George Carlin was a Hollywood film star with a net worth in the millions if not tens of millions. He's on stage, not working a 9-5, getting you to laugh with him at all the "idiots". It's a big club and he was in it.

This is just an ad hominem attack. We’re better off not living in world where no one can have an opinion unless it’s on a direct, currently lived experience. That’s some identity politics nonsense.