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Go to the popular third-party apps that are getting killed and scroll past the RIP messages for latest reviews and you will see a lot of one word 5-star reviews

by Kiro 3y ago

Go to the popular third-party apps that are getting killed and scroll past the RIP messages for latest reviews and you will see a lot of one word 5-star reviews. Are those suspicious as well? No, that's just what people do. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurencedawson.reddit_sync&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda... I think it's frivolous that people in that thread (and here) take this at face value.

taude 3y ago
Especially people HERE on this site.
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raincole 3y ago
I clicked your first link and scrolled for one whole minute. 0(literally zero, not "few") one word 5-star reviews found. You might want to clarify what you actually meant.
- Kiro 3y ago
  > 0(literally zero, not "few") Admittedly I included reviews like "Great app" and "Good. " but if we're strictly going on one word only: "Awesome." "" "Great!" "Perfect" "Works" "Great" "Perfect" "" Not sure why that's a requirement though. Isn't the point that the reviews are low effort or is one word exactly indicative of something? If I bought fake reviews I would expect a tiny bit higher standard than that. Edit: HN stripping emojis but they were thumb ups.
- vctrnk 3y ago
  Same here, and it's not region-targeted (I'm not from US/EU). This is borderline FUD.