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

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

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have they acknowledged this? how can they justify it? are we should it's google and not robinhood somehow? IIRC, the iOS App Store allows developers some control over how ratings are presented (i.e. by allowing them the option to reset ratings when uploading a new version)

If the reviews were reset, there wouldn’t be 180k+ reviews sitting there right now...

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

#14

If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.

Well yes because conspiracy theories are usually associated with the far right political agenda. Plus a broken clock is correct twice a day.

Do not speak without knowledge. A cursory glance at history will show it is not a unique phenomenon of one worldview.

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

#19

100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW also the link provides no proof

It might look like it from 100,000 foot view, however a bottom's up approach would show that there are millions, if not tens of millions, of people quite aware of Robinhood's shenanigans and are pissed off about it - enough to leave a review.

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

#20
post #4

have they acknowledged this? how can they justify it? are we should it's google and not robinhood somehow? IIRC, the iOS App Store allows developers some control over how ratings are presented (i.e. by allowing them the option to reset ratings when uploading a new version)

It's not possible for an app publisher to delete reviews.

However, in the Google Play Console, as an app publisher you can flag comments as against the Google ToS, about 100 per day maximum and then the reviews go through moderation at Google.

Here, it's more like a bulk deletion was done (certainly manual action) and I doubt it's just one single moderator taking action to delete 100k+ reviews.

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