China Assigns Children Homework Via App During Outbreak. Kids Spam 1-Star Reviews To Get App Removed From Store

[DrForester]

Wang Xiuying · The Word from Wuhan · LRB 22 February 2020

People on the left call for a united front against the virus. Liberals are determined to hold the government to account...

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Children were presumably glad to be off school – until, that is, an app called DingTalk was introduced. Students are meant to sign in and join their class for online lessons; teachers use the app to set homework. Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review it would get booted off the App Store. Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk's rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: 'I'm only five years old myself, please don't kill me.'

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[Squarehard]

Checkmate.

 

[apocat]

Hahaha! I'm impressed, that's a genius move!

 

[Buttzerker]

 

[Kard8p3]

 

[Ryan.]

I don't see the problem here

 

[shintoki]

Welcome to the future

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

A+

 

[Deleted member 4783]

Lmao, that's amazing

 

[Luap]

 

[Matsukaze]

Excellent work

 

[Deleted member 8861]

Smart

 

[Ithil]

Weaseling out of homework is a childhood tradition across the world in all generations.

 

[capitalCORN]

Aaah, good ol' children.

 

[Musubi]

The kind of ingenuity you love to see from kids. Lmao.

 

[mikeamizzle]

Brilliant! Haha

 

[Chopchop]

Kids coming together for a common cause lmao.

 

[Z-Beat]

Laziness will always trump hard work in the world of innovation. A hard working person carries the boxes one at a time to their destination. A smart (lazy) person paid them to do it for them at a fraction of what THEY were originally paid to do the same job so they make a profit with no work.

 

[Deleted member 18944]

viva le revolution

 

[show me your skeleton]

Laziness will always trump hard work in the world of innovation. A hard working person carries the boxes one at a time to their destination. A smart (lazy) person paid them to do it for them at a fraction of what THEY were originally paid to do the same job so they make a profit with no work.

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that hard working person is an idiot

 

[GJ]

Bless these kids.

 

[Slayven]

These kids were born in the darkness

 

[Jarrod38]

The cloud ate my homework.

 

[MadeULook]

It's amazing what people can accomplish when we work together.

 

[Kace]

S tier trolling

 

[Mekanos]

The kid are alright.

 

[SugarNoodles]

The algorithm has spoken.

 

[Deleted member 18944]

These kids were born in the darkness

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Molded by it.

 

[Deleted member 25606]

Usually people take good things and ruin them, but this time they took a normally shitty thing (review bombing) and made good.

love these little life suprises.

 

[Invictus]

 

[Deleted member 4367]

These kids were born in the darkness

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They truly are a bane to app makers everywhere.

 

[jayu26]

Children should be given A+ collectively.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

I mean, that a communist country was relying on the App Store was a red flag already

 

[Doggg]

Hey teacher
Leave them kids alone

 

[Delphine]

Gen Z is just fine! We stan them!

 

[Gwenpoolshark]

I'm honestly just so proud of them.

 

[grand]

Kids are basically made to find weakpoints & come up with out of the box solutions as they test boundaries and learn how the world works. It's a time honored tradition

 

[TheYanger]

that hard working person is an idiot

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That hard working person is the entire working class...

 

[Chessguy1]

they talked about this on easy allies a few weeks ago, heh. very cool. :)

 

[Traxus]

These are the children who will save us Ender's Game style.

 

[Dennis8K]

You little scamps.

 

[show me your skeleton]

That hard working person is the entire working class...

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whelp, missed that analogy

 

[R0b1n]

They used to mail homework when quarantines were active, they should be thankful there's an app for it

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk's rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: 'I'm only five years old myself, please don't kill me.'

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[King Kingo]

The students have become the teachers.

 

[Firewithin]

knowing school sucks is universal

 

[Falchion]

They should get an A for that.

 

[fontguy]

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[Saifu]

These kids deserve to not need to do the shitty homework.

 

[Khanimus]

A+ activism, children