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100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW also the link provides no proof

loceng 6y ago
It might look like it from 100,000 foot view, however a bottom's up approach would show that there are millions, if not tens of millions, of people quite aware of Robinhood's shenanigans and are pissed off about it - enough to leave a review.
MauranKilom 6y ago
There are over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as of right now. The majority of them joined this week. 2% of them voting on the app doesn't sound like bot spam to me.
- tqi 6y ago
  Reddit is not exactly known for preventing spam account creation...
  - benji_is_me 6y ago
    The original (now banned) discord had >300k members alone.
    - rnotaro 6y ago
      Discord have an hard limit of 250 000 users so that's a lie.
      - ripply 6y ago
        The discord group is back up, you can see how many members it has yourself - 378,303 https://discord.com/invite/wallstreetbets https://discord.com/invite/wallstreetbets
      - benji_is_me 6y ago
        That's incorrect. Server owners can request limit increases. The official replacement server already has ~380k members. https://i.imgur.com/EdREGic.png https://i.imgur.com/EdREGic.png
kfriede 6y ago
WSB has over 5 million subscribers right now (up 1 million from yesterday alone) and some threads get over 100,000 comments on a single thread. I don't find it hard to believe that a 100k Android users got angry enough with Robinhood to leave a negative review.
adrianmonk 6y ago
Legit reviews and bot spam both sound like plausible explanations. I'm sure Google has the server logs to figure that out with reasonable certainty, but unfortunately we don't.
1MachineElf 6y ago
Well, the one I left was legit.
TeMPOraL 6y ago
I have no screenshot, but: Right now, the link shows 4 stars and 180,526 reviews. Few hours ago, when I became aware that /r/wallstreetbets are talking about Robing Hood's app, I took a look at that same page out of curiosity. It clocked around 250,000 reviews, with overall rating of 1 star.
- rvnx 6y ago
  Here is the screenshot: https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh
maerF0x0 6y ago
I can tell you I saw it at ~300k reviews and a 1* rating today.
AndrewBissell 6y ago
Verge has confirmed: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-...
louloulou 6y ago
Might have something to do with them preventing their users from buying today to save their hedge fund masters, no?
650REDHAIR 6y ago
Something like 50% of RH users had $GME positions. 100k is probably on the low side of angry users right now...
smartties 6y ago
Yesterday at 290 000+ reviews : https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.goog... four hours ago at 180K : https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.goog... And now at 178K reviews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.... With more than 100k review in a day, Google must detected them as fake reviews by default.

It might look like it from 100,000 foot view, however a bottom's up approach would show that there are millions, if not tens of millions, of people quite aware of Robinhood's shenanigans and are pissed off about it - enough to leave a review.

MauranKilom 6y ago

There are over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as of right now. The majority of them joined this week. 2% of them voting on the app doesn't sound like bot spam to me.

tqi 6y ago
Reddit is not exactly known for preventing spam account creation...
- benji_is_me 6y ago
  The original (now banned) discord had >300k members alone.
  - rnotaro 6y ago
    Discord have an hard limit of 250 000 users so that's a lie.
    - ripply 6y ago
      The discord group is back up, you can see how many members it has yourself - 378,303 https://discord.com/invite/wallstreetbets https://discord.com/invite/wallstreetbets
    - benji_is_me 6y ago
      That's incorrect. Server owners can request limit increases. The official replacement server already has ~380k members. https://i.imgur.com/EdREGic.png https://i.imgur.com/EdREGic.png

kfriede 6y ago

WSB has over 5 million subscribers right now (up 1 million from yesterday alone) and some threads get over 100,000 comments on a single thread. I don't find it hard to believe that a 100k Android users got angry enough with Robinhood to leave a negative review.

adrianmonk 6y ago

Legit reviews and bot spam both sound like plausible explanations. I'm sure Google has the server logs to figure that out with reasonable certainty, but unfortunately we don't.

1MachineElf 6y ago

Well, the one I left was legit.

TeMPOraL 6y ago

I have no screenshot, but: Right now, the link shows 4 stars and 180,526 reviews. Few hours ago, when I became aware that /r/wallstreetbets are talking about Robing Hood's app, I took a look at that same page out of curiosity. It clocked around 250,000 reviews, with overall rating of 1 star.

rvnx 6y ago
Here is the screenshot: https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh

maerF0x0 6y ago

I can tell you I saw it at ~300k reviews and a 1* rating today.

AndrewBissell 6y ago

Verge has confirmed: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-...

louloulou 6y ago

Might have something to do with them preventing their users from buying today to save their hedge fund masters, no?

650REDHAIR 6y ago

Something like 50% of RH users had $GME positions. 100k is probably on the low side of angry users right now...

smartties 6y ago

Yesterday at 290 000+ reviews : https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.goog... four hours ago at 180K : https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.goog... And now at 178K reviews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.... With more than 100k review in a day, Google must detected them as fake reviews by default.