Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India

Re:Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India by the_common_man on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:59AM (#15273879)

I read your comment and checked the app page. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...) It had 4.5 stars. I was like what is this commenter talking about.

I then dig into the comments and there are a massive number of negative comments. I am not sure what is happening here but the rating seems artificially inflated. It shows that there are only 9 1-stars and yet in comments there are way more 1-stars. Really sad to see this sort of gaming at the play store level.

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Re:Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India by lurker- on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:23AM (#15273960)

I don't know how the Play Store commenting system works, but I think before jumping to conclusions then it's important to consider that if there were any foul play then it would probably have been better achieved through "shadowbanning". I do feel it would make sense if the Play Store didn't count comments made by newly registered users or known bots.

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Re:Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India by halflings on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:42AM (#15274040)

Let's not assume Google just decided to break the trust of billions of users just to inflate the ratings of one of their apps.

Many possible explanations: different caching, some of the 1 star comments were by people who didn't use the app, bots, etc.

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Re:Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India by Oletros on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:56AM (#15274550)

Right now I see 3.2 stars and doing the calc with the votes it is right

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