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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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Post by [deleted] »

SllX wrote: post #427
zouhair wrote: post #257

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Taxes. I think most human beings can survive with 100 millions of dollars of wealth (it's more than one can spend in multiple lifetimes). Anything over that can just be taxed. The problem of letting any private entities get that rich is they start to take control of everything. One such example is The East India Company having at one point a bigger private army than the British Army[0]. As things go we will soon be a…

So you’re not making it illegal to be a billionaire, you’re just taking it in the form of raising revenue for the government. Except government revenue serves a purpose: paying for government services and salaries. What do you do with the surplus cash? What about when someone does not have a billion dollars in cash, but has billions in assets? Flesh this out for me please.

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

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Post by 1123581321 »

XorNot wrote: post #125
1996 wrote: post #62

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> it's deplatforming, using AWS as a weapon against smaller voices. I can't see this ending well. This, so much - imagine you believe "they" stole the election, "they" got your favorite social media shut down (parler/gab/whatever), "they" blocked the buying of options, "they" then liquidated your position as the price predictably fail and you got margin called, you complained but "they" got your feedback deleted. Ouc…

So this is conflating some very different circumstances.

The point is that a widely perceived conflation will have material effects on the involved organizations and that the conflation will spread to new organizations with each new incident.

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

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Post by Teever »

JJJollyjim wrote: post #435
dang wrote: post #550

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(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?

Hackernews has very few staff and most of them are busy with administration/moderation.

I agree kind of odd to see pinned posts by Dang but I have a feeling that's the best they can do with the resources at hand.

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

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Post by detaro »

JJJollyjim wrote: post #435
dang wrote: post #550

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(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?

Given that they specifically introduced pagination to avoid issues caused by too-large single pages, probably yes. (tbh I would have passive-agressively made the "next" link 100px Comic Sans, but it's probably a good thing I'm not responsible for that)

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

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Post by tesmar2 »

warent wrote: post #329
tesmar2 wrote: post #205

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How exactly was this not the free market? Did robinhood do something illegal and break their contract?

A corporation unilaterally deciding and altering market conditions is a free market?

What they did sucks. But I am wondering what contract did they break?

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

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Post by quartus »

kerng wrote: post #219
simias wrote: post #115

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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…

Not really. Many of people are rightfully upset and want to leave a 1 star review. It would be extremely inappropriate if Google removed my review. I think the app sucks if they can just prevent you from trading a stock and make you the bagholder in favor of large investors. Seems like a legitimate concern that hundred thousands of other people share - not some organized random prank. People are losing money as we sp…

Clarification: It did not prevent you from selling your holdings (ie. did not make you a bag holder). It only prevented you from opening a new position.

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

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Post by buffaloo »

We’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.

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

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Post by utkugenc »

animal_spirits wrote: post #409
thereisnospork wrote: post #288

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How is that not fraud though? They are advertising a manipulated review score. The 1 stars aren't bots, they are people. Would it be legal for e.g. yelp to remove a string of bad reviews stemming from a catering company giving a wedding food poisoning?

I'm not saying I condone what happened. I just see people claiming corruption, and I personally doubt that. I think its more along the form of "lets remove these reviews for now and analyze them tomorrow"

Corruption is a tricky subject. Pawns of a dictatorship, a mafia or any hierarchical corrupt structure... They might not be aware of what's actually going on but that doesn't change the fact that the structure is corrupt. Whatever caused this, Google's guidelines, its business practices, its investor relations, is corrupt.

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

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Post by 93po »

tesmar2 wrote: post #445
warent wrote: post #329

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A corporation unilaterally deciding and altering market conditions is a free market?

What they did sucks. But I am wondering what contract did they break?

The laws enforced by the SEC
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