Well, that was incredibly quick. Big money talks FAST.
Or, just possibly, a hundred thousand one star reviews in one day trigger some sort of automated spam system and not everything is the work of shadowy big financial institutes?
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
#32100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW also the link provides no proof
WSB has over 5 million subscribers right now (up 1 million from yesterday alone) and some threads get over 100,000 comments on a single thread. I don't find it hard to believe that a 100k Android users got angry enough with Robinhood to leave a negative review.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#33I am a real user of the app and I can confirm my review was reviewed without my consent.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#34If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
If anyone predicted Trump becoming president 10 years ago, they would've been labelled a lunatic.
Reality is stranger than the fiction we all live within, because fiction has the constraints of being something we can comprehend and live with. It has to be redeeming and hopeful, reality doesn't.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#35If someone predicted 10 years ago what Big Tech did in the last years, they would have been labeled conspiracy theorist.
Modern surveillance capitalism is far beyond the wildest fever dreams of 90s shortwave radio conspiracy nuts.
agreed, at least jack-booted thugs are visible to those they oppress
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#36How 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.
You may think reviews are calculated as:
SELECT app, AVG(stars) AS display_stars FROM customer_reviews GROUP BY app;
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#37How 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.
They'll just play themselves into regulation eventually. Once FTC comes after them the only people to blame for it are themselves.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#38Why do people keep needing proof that big money runs everything.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#39Honest 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?
> They aren't that connected to Wall Street companies.
Lol. Sure they aren't.
Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
#40How 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.
They'll just play themselves into regulation eventually. Once FTC comes after them the only people to blame for it are themselves.
Optimistic.