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HN has lost its mind. Everything is suddenly a conspiracy against the noble individual investor. Story after story voted up to the front page with minimal rel

HN has lost its mind. Everything is suddenly a conspiracy against the noble individual investor. Story after story voted up to the front page with minimal relevance. I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? No. This is spam. It's just spam. People are angry, and this is a tool. And it's treated by Google exactly the way any other review spam would be. There's no conspiracy here.

adamnemecek 6y ago
The anger is justified.
MauranKilom 6y ago
> were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? According to Motherboard, the majority of RH accounts hold GME. There's also over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as we speak (most of them from this week). What percentage of those do you think would be "eligible" (according to your own criteria) to leave a legitimate review?
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  > According to Motherboard, the majority of RH accounts hold GME. They retracted that later. "Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that 56 percent of Robinhood users hold GME stock. This is incorrect, based on a misreading of a statistic on Robinhood. Motherboard regrets the error." See the bottom of: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ak7y/robinhood-stops-users-from-trading-gamestop-stocks-other-reddit-yolo-picks https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ak7y/robinhood-stops-users... They haven't provided an updated value. However, it's not hard to believe a significant chunk of Robin Hood users owned some GME today.
  - MauranKilom 6y ago
    Thank you! Would correct if I could still edit.
127 6y ago
A honest review is not spam.
bigyikes 6y ago
You don’t need a GME position to think less of Robinhood after today
p2t2p 6y ago
How is that spam? I find the information that the app developer suddenly crippled the service promised during installation to be very useful.
melq 6y ago
>I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? With out a doubt. Robinhood has 13 million users according to their own filing with the SEC. WallStreetBets has 5 million subscribers. An overlap of 100k between those two groups sure seems likely to me.
alpha_squared 6y ago
If 100,000 people are each leaving one review about their experience, presumably related to Robinhood's change earlier today to limit certain actions, how does that qualify as spam? Is it because it happened within a short timeframe? I'm sincerely interested in what qualifies as spam in this case given that these are organic, possibly non-automated reviews that map 1-to-1 to a specific user who has installed (and presumably used) the app.
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kristopolous 6y ago
This reminds me of the Trump 2016 campaign and the Bitcoin 2017 bubble. It's the same avalanche of bullshit social media strike tactics.
justforyou 6y ago
The accounts were more likely blocked from a sell.

adamnemecek 6y ago

The anger is justified.

MauranKilom 6y ago

> were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? According to Motherboard, the majority of RH accounts hold GME. There's also over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as we speak (most of them from this week). What percentage of those do you think would be "eligible" (according to your own criteria) to leave a legitimate review?

TeMPOraL 6y ago
> According to Motherboard, the majority of RH accounts hold GME. They retracted that later. "Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that 56 percent of Robinhood users hold GME stock. This is incorrect, based on a misreading of a statistic on Robinhood. Motherboard regrets the error." See the bottom of: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ak7y/robinhood-stops-users-from-trading-gamestop-stocks-other-reddit-yolo-picks https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ak7y/robinhood-stops-users... They haven't provided an updated value. However, it's not hard to believe a significant chunk of Robin Hood users owned some GME today.
- MauranKilom 6y ago
  Thank you! Would correct if I could still edit.

127 6y ago

A honest review is not spam.

bigyikes 6y ago

You don’t need a GME position to think less of Robinhood after today

p2t2p 6y ago

How is that spam? I find the information that the app developer suddenly crippled the service promised during installation to be very useful.

melq 6y ago

>I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? With out a doubt. Robinhood has 13 million users according to their own filing with the SEC. WallStreetBets has 5 million subscribers. An overlap of 100k between those two groups sure seems likely to me.

alpha_squared 6y ago

If 100,000 people are each leaving one review about their experience, presumably related to Robinhood's change earlier today to limit certain actions, how does that qualify as spam? Is it because it happened within a short timeframe? I'm sincerely interested in what qualifies as spam in this case given that these are organic, possibly non-automated reviews that map 1-to-1 to a specific user who has installed (and presumably used) the app.

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kristopolous 6y ago

This reminds me of the Trump 2016 campaign and the Bitcoin 2017 bubble. It's the same avalanche of bullshit social media strike tactics.

justforyou 6y ago

The accounts were more likely blocked from a sell.