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OK what? What the f%#$ is going on here?!! What triggered Alphabet to suddenly get involved? I'm assuming that these reviews didn't appear recently, suddenly o

OK what? What the f%#$ is going on here?!! What triggered Alphabet to suddenly get involved? I'm assuming that these reviews didn't appear recently, suddenly or something. Discord shuts down WallStreetBets and reddit throttle them.. both for hate speech. Suddenly, simultaneously and coincidentally during their maneuver. The CEO of the NASDAQ rushes to a camera calling for SEC scrutiny and tightening regulation, wearing a look of disbelief on her own face. Financial press have a meltdown in the opposite direction of regular reporters. No laws seem to have been broken. Now google happen to be doing something with the RH app? WTF! This whole thing is saucier than soup.

jquery 6y ago
All that’s missing is a dishonest Trump tweet telling everyone what to think about the situation.
- dalbasal 6y ago
  Lol. I hadn't even thought of him. He's probably deep in twitter withdrawal atm. All this action. All the other famous billionaires tweeting.
tzs 6y ago
> What triggered Alphabet to suddenly get involved? I'm assuming that these reviews didn't appear recently, suddenly or something. They did appear recently. The latest pre-today copy of the page at archive.org [1] had it at 166469 reviews (average a tad over 4 stars). That was from 2020-11-17. The next copy there was at 14:06 today (2021-01-28) [2]. It's up to 196808 reviews (average 2.5 stars). They captured it several mores times today. Here's a table. 14:06 196808 17:17 295104 18:24 306315 19:17 327577 20:22 330648 21:02 319501 21:36 246084 22:25 202305 and they have two captures from tomorrow: 00:24 180490 02:23 178221 If we play it safe and assume that all the reviews as of 14:06 today were old reviews, there was a minimum of 133840 reviews today, which would have been 40% of the total reviews. More realistically, if we go with about 170k old reviews, it's more like 160k reviews today representing almost 50% of all reviews. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.goog... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.goog...

jquery 6y ago

All that’s missing is a dishonest Trump tweet telling everyone what to think about the situation.

dalbasal 6y ago
Lol. I hadn't even thought of him. He's probably deep in twitter withdrawal atm. All this action. All the other famous billionaires tweeting.

tzs 6y ago

> What triggered Alphabet to suddenly get involved? I'm assuming that these reviews didn't appear recently, suddenly or something. They did appear recently. The latest pre-today copy of the page at archive.org [1] had it at 166469 reviews (average a tad over 4 stars). That was from 2020-11-17. The next copy there was at 14:06 today (2021-01-28) [2]. It's up to 196808 reviews (average 2.5 stars). They captured it several mores times today. Here's a table. 14:06 196808 17:17 295104 18:24 306315 19:17 327577 20:22 330648 21:02 319501 21:36 246084 22:25 202305 and they have two captures from tomorrow: 00:24 180490 02:23 178221 If we play it safe and assume that all the reviews as of 14:06 today were old reviews, there was a minimum of 133840 reviews today, which would have been 40% of the total reviews. More realistically, if we go with about 170k old reviews, it's more like 160k reviews today representing almost 50% of all reviews. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.goog... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood.android https://web.archive.org/web/20201117224019/https://play.goog...