I've been using Android for over a decade now I believe. Have only reviewed a handful of apps and generally been a good citizen. I left a thoughtful one star review today and it was deleted. I'm not going to lie, it irks me.
Did you use the app?
Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
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#582This is insane
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But nothing was "out of stock". They just decided you can't buy?
In effect, it was. The stock was out there, but RH didn't have the cash in the right account to move it so you could buy it. If Amazon doesn't let me buy black socks for one day, it doesn't mean there are no black socks anywhere in the world.
That’s absolutely not what they told me in the email they sent me. Amazon doesn’t have my money in a sweep account. One star.
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Someone could become US president riding this public sentiment. Let's see if it decays in 4 years...
Scary to think that after four years of solid market gains it could implode because of retail investors getting angry.
It's imploding because hedge funds are taking crazy risk on and then illegally trying to weasel their way out of the losses they have coming.
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#585Google should go ahead and adopt a new slogan “We are evil, so let’s let the world know it.”
I think they did just that when they retired the slogan “don’t be evil”.
True, but they haven’t come out and stated it explicitly yet. Now’s the time ... don’t miss this opportunity, Google.
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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…
It seems like maybe the solution is not to remove reviews, but weight them somehow. 100k reviews left in 2 days probably shouldn't have the same weight as 100k reviews left over 2 years. Or a more sophisticated version of this would be to somehow cluster reviews based on the particular issue they are reporting.
I think this is how Steam solved (or attempted to) with their store reviews. Now you can see two scores, the lifetime score and the recents score.
In an ideal situation the app should show the 4. lifetime stars and the 1. recent stars. A user will them immediately know something happened, and investigate on their own (whether the review bombing was for something they care about or not).
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#587So, if a free-to-use app suddenly becomes pay-to-use and all users lose their access to their data unless they pay (similar to an app getting malware but in a legal way), and then those users review with 1 stars...Google will remove those reviews?
This is dangerous. I remember some cases where an app suddenly changes owner and adds ads and other unwanted features. What happened in those other cases?
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Or just you know let people express their views. If people think the app is a good or bad experience they will say so.
Where did I suggest otherwise? My whole point was to let the reviews be, but figure out a way to make them useful. 100k reviews complaining about not being able to buy Gamestop is not useful.
right here:
>[reviews i dont like] probably shouldn't have the same weight as [reviews i do like].
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If you through Trump was bad, just wait until a competent version shows up
March 4th.
> March 4th.
I believe the context here is that Sovereign Citizens and some Q people believe that this is the date that Trump assumes a new term.
March 4 was (haven’t verified this myself) the original inauguration date. So says a podcast I listened to about conspiracy theories.
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> Which deplatformings do you specifically refer to? President (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram), White House, Parler (Google Play, Apple, AWS), MyPillow guy, anyone who utters the phrase "stop the steal" on Facebook, Kyle Rittenhouse (Facebook, GoFundMe, Discover)
Wow, it's almost like private companies don't want to be seen supporting terrible people who have done terrible things, such as damage a democracy by incompetence and malice. Or encouraged and emboldened extremists cumulating in an attempt to actually harm the leaders of a country, or illegally obtain a gun, shot several people, then was seen associating with extremists who regularly call for and perpetrate violence.
Well those private companies wouldn't be seen as "supporting" anybody, if they behaved with any level of consistency and transparency. It is a problem of their own making, with every virtue signal further compounding expectations. I suspect that the majority of people you hate probably have phone numbers and receive mail, but I don't believe that AT&T and UPS "support" them - because those companies don't pull these stupid stunts. Debanking is starting to get normalized... and the new liberal battle cry is "private companies!"