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Reddit is buyng 5 star reviews. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

Hey, Jeffery Tromp is a friend of mine and I can vouch for his review and confirm that he’s not going anywhere else but he’s

[-] ggt@lemmy.fmhy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Mine too, and I can vouch for the other's reviews and their

[-] mala@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

hey it's me aliyalcorwin, let's get together tomorrow to

[-] FrancisFeliz@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

LMAO

[-] PaladinSaladin@vlemmy.net 12 points 1 year ago

the quick response to the hospital is your family doing over the phone

[-] sweBers@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

This is the first time I have a friend who is it an adult and I don't know what to.

[-] eldoom@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

That's what I'm saying to the other person that has a new one in there

[-] QuietStorm@lemmy.fmhy.ml 49 points 1 year ago

so this is a real thing huh? i wonder what reddit will do next...

[-] ggt@lemmy.fmhy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

they're gonna say "It's reddit time!" and start redditting everywhere

[-] squip@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

announce a redditor appreciation day and give everyone 30 free gold coins

[-] Riptide502@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Saw that days ago. You missed the chain of 7-10 reviews that said “OK” all conveniently on the same day.

Report then, and at the very least, make them as unhelpful.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

It's a repost from other sub but the platform doesn't show that for this post because I changed the link so it shows the image directly on lemmy. Sorry for the post being misleading about the author. :/

[-] Riptide502@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I didn’t mean that as a repost. I mean I actually saw that on the app store a few days ago.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, gotcha, this sentence confused me then:

You missed the chain of 7-10 reviews that said “OK” all conveniently on the same day.

[-] hellequin67@lemmy.fmhy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

UK Play store keeping it real :-)

[-] ninbreaker@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

Can't afford to pay mods, but have plenty saved for fake reviewers smh

[-] DrNeurohax@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

I... um... Are they trying to code spam bots themselves? Are they THAT cheap, and, judging by the results, THAT talentless?

I almost feel like we should tell them that there are places you can pay to have others do this "professionally". This almost bypasses Funny and goes straight to Sad/Pathetic.

[-] zikov@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Im wondering why they didn’t take the three seconds to make more convincing translations? It feels like Pre GPT AI lol

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

ELIZA

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Wow, this is so pathetic. As if five star reviews would make the people more willing to accept and use their steaming pile of shit app. Shit stays shit, no matter how many 5 star reviews.

[-] sotolf@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

This thing basically perfectly described by the "You can put lipstick on a pig" saying.

[-] JustinN2002@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Jesus fucking Christ that’s pathetic.

[-] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 18 points 1 year ago

Yo where does that one user wanna get the boys in?

[-] DrNeurohax@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

u/spez's basement...

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Can't this be reported?

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

What do you want to report? Appstores remove bad reviews under premise of "bomb reviews" (or something like that) for corporations to unhurt their fillings. They did it for example with tiktok.

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I mean faking reviews is literally violating laws in some countries, so it's not like there's no basis.

[-] sergih123@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure apple must have rules in their App Store about this, right? Can they don anything? Like, hiding it in the App Store as retaliation?

[-] PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks for giving me the idea to go rate the reddit app 1 star

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Why do these reviews read like snippets from some sort of Frankenstein-esque Lorem Ipsum created by hitting autosuggest options on my keyboard?

[-] sotolf@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Markov chain maybe?

[-] meisme@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Good morning and I hope you are having a stroke of the week

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Went there to leave my own 1 star review and decided to check these out. Even the 5 star ratings are complaining about how shitty the app is lol

Most of them say things like "the ads are intrusive and the whole thing is bloated and slow BUT I LOVE REDDIT AND THIS IS THE BEST APP EVER"

I guess the only thing people hate more than a worthless garbage app is the slight inconvenience of trying literally anything else

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Shocking news.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

This just in: you were all wrong! The piece-of-shit app is actually great! Guess now I know.

[-] Mozami@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Considering the things spez has done like trying to prevent people from removing their data while breaking the law, this doesn't surprise me at all.

[-] Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Make a sentence out of these words. Surprise, big, not.

[-] hibbfd@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Big words surprise, a sentence of make out. Not these.

[-] NXTR@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Report the individual reviews by long pressing on them and report the app to apple by tapping "report a problem" at the bottom of the app description page. If enough people do this maybe apple will take action. Not sure what the steps are on Android but I'm sure they're similar.