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Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by ariwilson on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:09PM (#25951482)
100k 1-star reviews sounds like bot spam FWIW

also the link provides no proof

Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by loceng on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:12PM (#25951532)
It might look like it from 100,000 foot view, however a bottom's up approach would show that there are millions, if not tens of millions, of people quite aware of Robinhood's shenanigans and are pissed off about it - enough to leave a review.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by kfriede on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:16PM (#25951584)
WSB has over 5 million subscribers right now (up 1 million from yesterday alone) and some threads get over 100,000 comments on a single thread. I don't find it hard to believe that a 100k Android users got angry enough with Robinhood to leave a negative review.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by MauranKilom on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:15PM (#25951567)
There are over 5 million subscribers to /r/wallstreetbets as of right now. The majority of them joined this week. 2% of them voting on the app doesn't sound like bot spam to me.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by tqi on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:27PM (#25951753)
Reddit is not exactly known for preventing spam account creation...
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by benji_is_me on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:03PM (#25952129)
The original (now banned) discord had >300k members alone.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by rnotaro on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:53PM (#25952600)
Discord have an hard limit of 250 000 users so that's a lie.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by benji_is_me on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:44PM (#25953078)
That's incorrect. Server owners can request limit increases. The official replacement server already has ~380k members.

https://i.imgur.com/EdREGic.png

Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by ripply on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:39PM (#25953024)
The discord group is back up, you can see how many members it has yourself - 378,303

https://discord.com/invite/wallstreetbets

Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by smartties on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:04PM (#25952140)
Yesterday at 290 000+ reviews : https://web.archive.org/web/20210128171659/https://play.goog...

four hours ago at 180K : https://web.archive.org/web/20210129002353/https://play.goog...

And now at 178K reviews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....

With more than 100k review in a day, Google must detected them as fake reviews by default.

Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by 650REDHAIR on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:42PM (#25951938)
Something like 50% of RH users had $GME positions.

100k is probably on the low side of angry users right now...

Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by adrianmonk on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:17PM (#25951607)
Legit reviews and bot spam both sound like plausible explanations. I'm sure Google has the server logs to figure that out with reasonable certainty, but unfortunately we don't.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by 1MachineElf on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:22PM (#25951677)
Well, the one I left was legit.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by TeMPOraL on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:22PM (#25951680)
I have no screenshot, but:

Right now, the link shows 4 stars and 180,526 reviews. Few hours ago, when I became aware that /r/wallstreetbets are talking about Robing Hood's app, I took a look at that same page out of curiosity. It clocked around 250,000 reviews, with overall rating of 1 star.

Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by rvnx on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:23PM (#25951698)
Here is the screenshot: https://ibb.co/PwLD7Sh
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by AndrewBissell on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:37PM (#25951880)
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by maerF0x0 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:28PM (#25951767)
I can tell you I saw it at ~300k reviews and a 1* rating today.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 18... by louloulou on Thursday January 28, 2021 @07:41PM (#25951921)
Might have something to do with them preventing their users from buying today to save their hedge fund masters, no?