Did Google help reddit? A short time ago the score for the reddit app was down around 3.2 as everyone gave it 1 star for how bad it was and all the drama going on. I just opened the play store today and the app has a 4.2. Did Google delete or discount some of those reviews?
Most likely yes. It's not uncommon for platforms to remove some bad ratings in situations like this. And I would even argue it's legitimate. Not all of these reviews are genuine. I wouldn't be surprised if some people created multiple accounts to leave multiple bad reviews. And if Google detects that, they are of course going to remove them.
They also do it with fake positive reviews. Not nearly as diligently but that's because no one puts attention on them. While you can be sure Reddit was complaining about some reviews.
This is why I don’t leave one star reviews as a part of a group.
Even if the spam detector doesn’t flag it, there’s often going to be some kind of back room deal going on with review hosters and rich “one star” victims.
Do two stars and list the “acceptable” reasons why. Don’t mention anything that can be removed as a part of a “brigade cleanup”.
Oh you had a completely legit review but ended with “f*** spez”? Guess what, the Reddit community manager can flag it and ask for it to be removed.
Here in Aus it's still got 2.6 stars. Funnily enough, it looks like all the 5-star spamming with nonsense text got removed, leaving the well-written 1-stars in place!
There are a bunch of new 5-star ratings, including some that mention the API, others put in language referencing other apps. Either fanboys brigading or paid shillery of the reviews is occurring.
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