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It’s an app for trading stocks. Suddenly I can’t use it to trade stocks. One star is warranted.
This seems a lot like giving the Amazon app one star because something was out of stock.
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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#542Probably an automated system, detecting reviews by people who haven't actually used the app. Google is basically an AI-run company at this point.
I use the app daily and it was still deleted
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#543Just post the neg review again...
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#544Google is a company and not obligated to let anybody post any kind of review on their platform. This is a non-issue. Whoever doesn't like can build their own play store, android os, and smartphone. No need to whine.
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#546Earlier quoted context omitted.
But still, it's a moot point because if anyone doesn't like how this was handled, they can go build their own phone operating system and application store since Google is a private company. Or has the HN's opinion on this changed now that partisan politics aren't involved?
I'm not sure what your point is here? yes, you can make your own ecosystem - what does that have to do with google being run by AIs? If I build my own, google will still be run by AIs? BTW - I find the easiest thing to do is just not use a cell phone. All I use my phone for is lyft and authy. Much easier then 'building my own'. edit: grammar
My point is related to the general consensus of HN over the past few weeks giving a pass to companies (Twitter/AWS/Facebook/etc) for taking extreme partisan political actions (e.g. banning Trump from Twitter, shutting down Parlor, etc).
The generic response was "if you don't like how they handled it, you can build your own platform". So now I'm gauging if that statement still holds when the situation doesn't cut across political lines...i.e. why is no one saying "if you don't like it, go build your own Google/Robinhood".
I think the answer is that since it's no longer a partisan-political issue, HN wants to treat the situation differently and forget what they said over the past few weeks.
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#547Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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?
Yes, but I don't want this temporary state to get too comfortable because it's not the desired solution:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24042165
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25065663
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25087113
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25383091
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710620 (thanks tzs!)
"Every large post" is an exaggeration, of course—I probably do this on fewer than 10% of the paginated threads.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#548We’ve got billions of people who need to feel sufficient confidence in the media and authorities to take vaccines nobody has used before at a time when every media outlet has some agenda to monkey around with what we know to be true. Not cool.
At this point I'm almost convinced that CIA (or perhaps one of its rivals) is running some psy-op on the citizenry. It's as if they'll get a bonus as soon as a million Americans die of covid. (hmmm... maybe we should watch for big spenders later this year...) Everything that comes out of CNN, the social media firms, etc. seems calculated to make most Americans less likely to submit to vaccination. I say this while we…
While I agree in some ways... let me ask you, how do you know you are on the “right” side of any mask or Covid or vax debate? You get your news from the same places “the people who are wrong” do.
It’s a thought experiment; not an implication.
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#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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?
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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#550The 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.))