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Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

So, Google has done this before. They do omething similar with dislikes on YouTube. They aren't doing it manually. When a bunch of pissed off assholes brigade an app and flip a bunch of five star reviews to one star reviews based on one policy change, that's generally not something that Google want to have too trong of an effect. If negative reviews continue steadily over time, they'll pile up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Except Robinhood absolutely deserves a one-star rating. Sure, go ahead and remove the reviews if they're untrue, offensive or obscene, but negative reviews about an incident that actually happened shouldn't be removed.

[–] TheRealLinga 2 points 1 year ago

Would you mind explaining what happened so I can continue being lazy? Please?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Steam handles this much better. They show a warning saying there have been an unusual amount of low scores in a short time period and a graph of the score over time. So you can make your own informed judgment.