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

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Post by UncleMeat »

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.

> In the case of Robinhood they are written by people upset that they have been monetarily screwed by the app.

Are they? This feels identical to a few people organically getting mad and then people bandwagoning.

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

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Post by SllX »

ncallaway wrote: post #286
SllX wrote: post #221

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> We need to start by making it illegal to be a billionaire. I’m listening. What does this law look like?

2% annual wealth tax on wealth over 200M. 70% top marginal tax rate on incoming over $10M in a year. Then it wouldn't be illegal to be a billionaire, but it would be much harder, and would mean you were constantly contributing a significant amount back to society if you're able to maintain that level of wealth.

You have thought this through more.

1. How would you conduct this assessment? 2. Now that you have figured out the legality of your position, why is this moral to do?

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

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Post by ImprovedSilence »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #380
ghufran_syed wrote: post #193

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I expect pompeo or haley to feature prominently in that role in 2024 unless Trump himself screws things up for republicans by trying to make a comeback

Awful as Google is, I'd still trust it more than anything with Mercer's fingerprints on it. (Which is barely at all. But still.) As for 2024 - it is obvious now that the only way the GOP can win another election is by dismantling democracy. There is no chance whatsoever that the GOP can win again without wilfully disenfranchising tens of millions of voters. In spite of the bot mob on Twitter trying to create the impr…

>> As for 2024 - it is obvious now that the only way the GOP can win another election is by dismantling democracy.

I don't think that's true. There are plenty of moderates in the the swing sates that voted for Biden but would be more than willing to jump on the bandwagon for someone who is seen as a moderate conservative and making the right promises. The trick is getting that candidate through the primaries if the scene looks like 2016, where the hard hard right will gather around the one nut job, and the other 5 establishment republicans will be indistinguishable.

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

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Post by lostmsu »

alisonkisk wrote: post #420
karmasimida wrote: post #187

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> could become US president riding this public sentiment It already happened 4 years ago.

That was the sarcastic joke.

Most jokes are half-true here, sadly.

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

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Post by JJJollyjim »

dang wrote: post #550
dang wrote: post #350

The previous thread on this is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947697 . For pointers to other vertices of this story graph, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933543 . Large threads are paginated. If you want to see all the comments you'll need to click through the More links at the bottom, or like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390&p=2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25951390&p=3…

(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the topic at hand. (Sorry, non-JS users.))

Have you considered making the website actually show the comments instead of pinning yourself on every large post?

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

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Post by gfxgirl »

odessacubbage wrote: post #405
rpdillon wrote: post #326

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Completely unmoderated reviews would be awful, which suggests moderation is necessary. Moderation requires judgment, and different people have different ideas about what good judgment looks like. Your question made me think about what a "real review" is. Should the person have used the app for more than a certain period of time? Do they need to have taken certain actions (make an account?) Different folks will draw l…

why do scores need to be simple? why not simply graph satisfaction over time and allow for demarcations like number of hours used. trying to apply a roger ebert scoring system to products and services that are ephemeral and ever-changing is largely meaningless. whether review bombing is legitimate or not, it at least always has a cause and that cause should be considered highly relevant purchasing information.

I don't agree at all. I want to be able to rate an app that made it impossible to sign up with 1 star. Or that required access to my camera even though the app has nothing to do with taking photos or images. So, no time in but the app deserves IMO 1 star and potential customers should be notified to stay far away from the app

As for breaking apart reviews into categories that also has its problem. Zagat used to rate restaurants in 5 categories and it ended up requiring people to lie if they wanted to convey the message "do not go here".

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

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Post by CamelCaseName »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #149
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, b…

> WSB removes posts and comments that don't toe the line that everyone needs to buy and hold GME

WSB allows both sides of the conversation, but because users have become especially dogmatic recently, any opinion that runs counter to the narrative gets downvoted.

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Post by valuearb »

simias wrote: post #115
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.

I think it's a tough decision to make. In general I understand that Google would prevent review bombing, since it can very easily be abused by social media mobs or competitors. The point of reviews is to give a genuine idea of how people on average like a given app. Reviem bombing completely distorts that, whether it be 1-star or 5-star reviews. But here it's a pretty huge app, and the bombing is motivated by a real…

What’s the real reason? That a horde of clueless children totally ignorant about the stock market blissfully traded highly volatile stocks on a highly leveraged platform without ever considering what was likely to happen?

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Post by lostmsu »

fastball wrote: post #211
matthewrobertso wrote: post #170

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I'm in the process of doing something similar. If you are as incensed as I am you might want to consider leaving a small amount of money < 1 USD in your account and opening an unused credit card with them.

Wait what does this do?

Presumably puts some burden on them? Like they have to maintain your credit card, review it once in a while, etc?

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

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Post by mrep »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #381
TeMPOraL wrote: post #192

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Given that 2021 is gearing up to become even weirder than 2020, it wouldn't surprise me if the next president was WallStreetBets' own /u/DeepFuckingValue...

I'd be down for asking someone from WallStreeBets to be my runningmate. Why DeepFuckingValue?

He is the one that posted the initial GME due diligence (DD) last year. Started with 50k in stocks and options, was valued at 48 million yesterday and 33 today and been posting updates basically everyday recently [0]. He did cash out 13 million yesterday.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/user/DeepFuckingValue

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