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

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Post by itsdrewmiller »

partiallypro wrote: post #8

How 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.

I mean, "this user never even downloaded this app" and "it got 100000% more reviews today than any other day" is probably a decent enough heuristic for removing fake reviews.

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

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Post by alsetmusic »

sthnblllII wrote: post #588
creato wrote: post #539

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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].

You’re projecting. The comment didn’t say that. The intent of the commenter is being assumed, whether rightly or wrongly.

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

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Post by bigwavedave »

creato wrote: post #371
kerng wrote: post #219

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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.

> 100k reviews left in 2 days probably shouldn't have the same weight as 100k reviews left over 2 years.

I'm not entirely sure I agree with this; let me offer another perspective and maybe you can talk through this with me and help me understand a little better. A review is an opportunity for a user to give their honest feedback to any prospective user and (incidentally) to the app developer(s), so a bunch of reviews bombing an app into oblivion has the potential to be wasteful and harmful (unauthentic negative ratings from competitors, like you mentioned). But on the other hand if Firefox mobile has average reviews and I don't leave any kind of review since I've been fairly satisfied with my experience with the app for the eight or so years I've been using android, then they release Firefox Daylight and completely ruin the experience for me, preventing me from doing things I've been able to do for years and fundamentally tanking the experience, should a five star review from 2017-18 be considered more relevant than my 2 star review from 2020? And the other thousands of 1 star reviews flooding in after the update? What if a company has a bad app, changes their process from waterfall to agile (sorry, had to inject a little humor here), overhauls their app, and gets a huge influx of positive reviews the same day as the release. Do the negative reviews left over time have more relevance than the positive reviews left after the update?

I'm not trying to take a position on what the right approach is, I'm hoping to understand a perspective that's different from mine :).

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

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Post by recursive »

mwcremer wrote: post #500
recursive wrote: post #475

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The card game manufacturer? I have no idea what you're talking about.

Edmund Hoyle wrote a set of rules for the card game whist. His name was used in subsequent collections of rules for all sort of games. "According to Hoyle" has become idiomatic for "according to the rules."

Thank you. I've managed to go forty years without hearing that one. Now that I know the next level meaning, I'm still confused about what is being referenced.

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

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Post by f430 »

centimeter wrote: post #567
f430 wrote: post #386

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I don't really see any political reason for this type of discrimination. It's just racism that nobody talks about because it's Asians who are seemingly well off economically when in reality the wealth disparity in this demographic is one of the widest. People see fu er dai students driving Lamborghini and think thats how all Asians live when in fact Asia is not even a country. For instance, its socially acceptable to…

East Asians are well off economically. If you’re confused about any of this, your model is broken. All you need to know is that East Asians are high IQ (within 0.3stddev of anglo or Germanic whites). This predicts everything else, including economic outcomes. Asians don’t get “diversity” points because they can’t be bribed with status subsidies; they are already high status (doctors, engineers, etc.) because of their…

Again you are grossly generalizing. Wealth disparity gap is one of the widest compared to other demographics.

Basing your model on stereotypes and statistics is exactly why we have the issues I spoke about earlier.

> If you’re confused about any of this, your model is broken. All you need to know is that East Asians are high IQ (within 0.3stddev of anglo or Germanic whites). This predicts everything else, including economic outcomes.

wait wait wait. So you think IQ and race are correlated. So Africans are poor because they have low IQ is what you are saying.

> Slurs against Asians are less offensive because the connotation of being Asian is bad.

wow. I can't believe I just read this on HN. "Its okay to be a little racist to Asians because nobody thinks its offensive". Who are you?

Sounds like you have a really skewed view of Asians (who are we even talking about? East Asians? South Asians? South East Asians?

> Slurs like “kraut” or “nip” don’t really have any weight because they’re basically complements.

WTF??? Who are you to gatekeep what is offensive and what isnt'?

I just read you trying to justify racism against Asians. HN has truly fallen far from grace.

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

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Post by f430 »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #240
centimeter wrote: post #74

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It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right social groups. If money truly equaled political power, we'd look more like Hong Kong pre-1997 (and arguably pre-2020).

If you're worth a hundred billion dollars, your Senators will be calling YOU for lunch, no matter who your friends are.

can we please ban centimeter please? this guy is an actual racist

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954606

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

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Post by ryandrake »

aallen90 wrote: post #402
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #381

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I'd be down for asking someone from WallStreeBets to be my runningmate. Why DeepFuckingValue?

That user took a strong position in GME before this all went down, and is still holding.

I believe if you go back in the user's posting history, he has posted screenshots of having a position in the stock over more than the past year--before the pandemic even started.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

neltnerb wrote: post #392
chkaloon wrote: post #372

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I've heard it said that Americans all think they are potential millionaires and billionaires that have temporarily hit a down patch. That's why democratic socialism will never fly here except for isolated programs.

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck

Reminds me of an article I keep in my bookmarks from a long time ago, which is probably still true today: 39% of Americans think they are in the top 1% or that they will one day be [1]. They don't want to be mean to the rich because they think they are rich or will soon be among them.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-ho...

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

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Post by justinzollars »

sidlls wrote: post #51
justinzollars wrote: post #26

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or Mussolini style Italian Fascism. Corporatist economics and authoritarianism

You're being downvoted, but you're not really wrong. It might present differently, but the reality is that the government and large, powerful corporations are separate entities more or less in name only. If the interests of a large corporation serves the interest of the people in the government, they'll move every lever of government they can to support the corporation, and vice versa. That's basically exactly what t…

Thanks.

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

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Post by kube-system »

edgyquant wrote: post #357
kube-system wrote: post #291

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Mode, median, and mean are all accurately described as averaging techniques. Mean is the most commonly used average, but they are not synonymous.

Well except that outside of mathematics and statistics they quite literally are to the layman

I think it's entirely reasonable to hold laypeople to the standards of what is taught in a typical middle school pre-algebra curriculum.
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