Reddit @lemmy.world Andojus @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Report Reddit To FTC for Posting Fake Revies

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Reddit has started posting purchased 5 star reviews on Apple Store, wouldn’t be surprised if they were doing on Android as well. This is illegal and you can voice your dissatisfaction with the FTC at the provided link.

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If they're trying to do it in the Google Play Store, it isn't working. I've never seen so many detailed, comprehensive 1 & 2 star reviews for any app. You just scroll and scroll and it's nothing but people describing in great detail what a turd the app is.

Seems to be all from people who decided to try the official app when spez pulled this crap and discovered that there was a reason no one used it.
- I’m glad they’re not doing it there… the Apple Store has a bunch with nonsense one line sentences with no grammar or punctuation. One of them even references a different app.
  
  I’ve noticed that too after writing my negative review, lots of fake positive reviews. I’ve also seen a lot of negative reviews under recent and the rating is still showing 4.8 for me on the Apple Store
- The rating has dropped from 3.5 stars yesterday to 2.5 stars today, and that's probably still dropping. Lots of paragraph long, detailed reviews.
  
  I've heard this before, but a few days ago I saw it was at 4.2 and today is at 4.0 on Google Play. Am I seeing a different rating than everyone else? I don't get it.
  
  It has a 3.4 rating when I look at it.
- I'm taking bets on how long it takes for Google to remove those 1 & 2-star reviews because some automated review bombing algorithm kicks in.
- The 5 stars are being drowned in negative reviews. Filter reviews to 5 stars and sort by recent. Check out the dates and what is said. Not assuming what is happening but it is sketchy.
Ysk, you can edit post titles in Lemmy
I checked one of the 5-star reviews, at the end:

That being said, it's nothing amazing. It's just fine, it does what it does. I have nothing against it.

High praise indeed.
- Coincidentally, that's exactly how I describe my toilet.
  
  I think my toilet is better than Reddit's app. And my toilet has a broken thingamajig that means I have to take off the lid and move a lever to get it to flush at least twice a week.
I like jumping on the bandwagon as much as the next guy, but do you have any evidence of these accusations?
- Only the evidence I put in my comments, all of the recent 5 star reviews have no constructive information in them other than a few random words.
  
  They look really suspicious and the FTC would be able to verify their authenticity.
  
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- I put a link below but here is another to a screenshot I took. https://imgur.com/a/QDDcxk8
- If you go on the play store and look at the 5 star reviews vs. 1 star reviews, is does look a little suspect.
  
  All the 1 star reviews are almost at the character limit, describing in detail why they gave it 1 star.
  
  At least half the 5 star reviews are one sentence reviews like "interesting content", "Works great! Thanks!!", "Its good", "I love it!", and "veri gud ep" (sic).
- If you go on the play store and look at the 5 star reviews vs. 1 star reviews, is does look a little suspect.
  
  All the 1 star reviews are almost at the character limit, describing in detail why they gave it 1 star.
  
  At least half the 5 star reviews are one sentence reviews like "interesting content", "Works great! Thanks!!", "Its good", "I love it!", and "veri gud ep" (sic).
This has to be a huge no-no for companies looking to go public. Because they're intentionally reporting metrics about their app downloads and reviews that they know to be fake.
Idk, I just checked the App Store and if you sort reviews as most recent they are almost all 1 star
- *Apple Store
  
  I agree most of the recent reviews are 1-star. Even so, the app has 2.7M reviews with a 4.8 average rating. The bad reviews don’t seem to be noticeable yet unfortunately.
The same should be done for IMDB if anyone can be bothered. I see so much of this for shitty Netflix series. 'The first episodes kind of suck but it gets better.' 10/10

-_-
- Protip: any TV shows with a boring 1st episode is only going to get worse
  
  I disagree. Star Trek: The Next Generation takes almost 2 seasons to get good. Perhaps TNG is an exception though, not the rule.
  
  Bojack Horseman is the exception to this. First season feels like a mediocre Family Guy-type show, then after that it's just banger after banger.
Damn how many laws has spez broken now? Anyone keeping track?
- He's rich AF. The laws don't apply to him!
  
  He's not even rich AF. I mean, he's definitely richer than I am, but he's not Bezos-level rich. He sold out his one good creation, had thousands of people doing millions of dollars of free work for him, is a tech CEO, and betrayed the people who believed in him, just to become moderately wealthy. Sad!

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