Google has just deleted over 100,000 negative RobinHood reviews

[alexi52]

Now adding Censorship to this whole shitshow

 

[Deleted member 5876]

Glad I've been slowly rolling my online presence away from google. Largest thing left is email -- which ugh.. is the most difficult thing to relocate.

 

[Deleted member 22630]

Bad look.

 

[Quade]

They forget that there are more of us than them.

 

[Firemind]

Well that's not sus at all.

 

[Deleted member 52442]

wtf

 

[Grim]

They forget that there are more of us than them.

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They always forget.

 

[Not a Horse]

They have class solidarity, do you?

 

[Theswweet]

Yeah this is gonna get more heated. I'm not sure if it's a rocket, but something is lifting off tomorrow...

 

[StrangerDanger]

Everyone's in bed with everyone. The only winners are ones that made out with profit from selling.

 

[reKon]

what's their policy on review ratings?

 

[Deleted member 3010]

What a shit show.

 

[Deleted member 52442]

what's their policy on review ratings?

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It's not outside Google's purview to delete these posts. Google's policies explicitly prohibit reviews intended to manipulate an app's rating, and the company says it has a system that "combines human intelligence with machine learning to detect and enforce policy violations in ratings and reviews." Google says it specifically took action on reviews that it felt confident violated those policies, the company tells The Verge. Google says companies do not have the ability to delete reviews themselves.

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their algo determined all the 1 star reviews had to be fake

 

[Verelios]

That's a dumb move.

 

[reKon]

their algo determined all the 1 star reviews had to be fake

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Just as robust as their YouTube algos in terms of operations!

 

[Dest]

Hell no. Fuck that.

 

[Regiruler]

It's still review bombed to hell on the app store as I pulled it up. If it wasn't enough to make a difference that makes me believe they did have some actual valid criteria.

 

[EnlightenedMint]

Big tech is not your friend.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

App Store do this often when there's a mass influx of reviews. Is it wrong? Probably. But is it unusual? Nope

 

[Deleted member 21709]

The system is rigged.

 

[Slayven]

That is the last thing they should have done

 

[Jakenbakin]

Big tech about to show a lot of the left and the right how to unify against their asses, this is crazy.

 

[Mariolee]

Everyone showing their ass these days huh

 

[Deleted member 46493]

Glad I've been slowly rolling my online presence away from google. Largest thing left is email -- which ugh.. is the most difficult thing to relocate.

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My problem is that email for me is purely read-only. It's basically a repository of receipts and transactions. I send maybe 10 emails a year. So that makes it difficult to pay for an email service (and those are the ones that respect privacy the most, like Hey).

 

[Rosebud]

Is there a thread explaining what is happening?

I just know about Gamestop.

 

[Wrapped in Black]

Big tech is not your friend.

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And if they aren't careful both the Right and Left will unite in their dislike of them

 

[Van Bur3n]

Google and their algorithms doing what is does best: Being the absolute opposite of useful.

 

[Earthboundstarman]

America is just one big sham.

 

[Labyrinthe]

Google's capital venture arm is an investor in Robinhood, let that sink in.

 

[Mesoian]

their algo determined all the 1 star reviews had to be fake

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Always blame it on the Algo.

Seems like the Algorithm is the root of all of googles problems these days...

 

[5taquitos]

Is there a thread explaining what is happening?

I just know about Gamestop.

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There's like a dozen on the main page.

 

[Melpomene]

America is just one big sham.

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[StrangeRoboMemory]

A lot of fuckery around this whole story.

 

[Walter White Walker]

Tech bros sticking together.

 

[EVA UNIT 01]

Fuck all that.
Bury em in the bad press

 

[Dekim]

Money is protecting money. That is all this is.

 

[Wag]

They forget that there are more of us than them.

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¡Viva la Revolución!

 

[Joe]

I'm betting the system is just set up to hide and ignore when a huge amount of 1 star reviews without comment come in all at once.

 

[Javaman]

Were they legit reviews or fake accounts created to dive RH's rating. I can see it justified if that's the case.

 

[L.E.D.]

Yep they deleted mine.
Reposted it.

 

[onadesertedisland]

It's not going to work.

 

[firehawk12]

No reviews on Apple made it through yet I guess.

 

[Xando]

what's their policy on review ratings?

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They stop review bombing like a lot of other services

 

[Human Resources]

i overheard guys at target randomly talking about this situation today.
everyone already knows, google. the spice must flow

 

[Indurian]

Thanks for the heads up. Just rated it 1 again.

 

[Chopchop]

This is some cyberpunk dystopia shit.

 

[Crono]

Deleted my review twice. Posting it again

 

[IMCaprica]

The article uses the term "review bombing", but is it review bombing when the complaint is "literally doesn't do the thing it's made to do"?

 

[Future Gazer]

Fucking gross. The whole system is rigged.

 

[The Albatross]

Were they legit reviews or fake accounts created to dive RH's rating. I can see it justified if that's the case.

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They were likely review bombs, people reviewing the app whether they've never used it or not. I think it's probably a safe assumption most were legit account, whether they were legit users of the app though is another question.