{"id":31490,"date":"2021-01-30T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31490"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:13:49","slug":"negative-robinhood-reviews-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/30\/negative-robinhood-reviews-deleted\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Robinhood Reviews Deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/28\/22255245\/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store\">Jay Peters<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/21\/01\/29\/0110216\/google-deletes-nearly-100000-negative-reviews-of-robinhood-app\">Slashdot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=25951390\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/28\/22255245\/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-reviews-play-store\"><p>Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to <em>The Verge. <\/em>After some disgruntled Robinhood users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wallstreetbets\/comments\/l7001b\/do_your_part_tank_robinhoods_rating_in_the_app\/\">organized<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hamiolhs\/status\/1354789899510149125?s=21\">campaigns<\/a> to give the app a one-star review on Google&rsquo;s Play Store and Apple&rsquo;s App Store &mdash; and succeeded in review-bombing it all the way down to a one-star rating &mdash; the company has now deleted enough reviews to bring it back up to nearly four stars.<\/p>\n<p>Robinhood came under intense scrutiny on Thursday, after the stock trading app announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/28\/22254102\/robinhood-gamestop-bloc-stock-purchase-amc-reddit-wsb\">it would block purchases of GameStop, AMC, and other stocks<\/a> made popular by the r\/WallStreetBets subreddit, and some users have already replaced their deleted one-star reviews with new ones to make their anger heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It currently has a 4.2 rating on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/robinhood-investing-for-all\/id938003185\">App Store<\/a>, so presumably Apple has also removed lots of 1-star ratings, though I do see some recent ones calling out Robinhood for blocking people from trading.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Peters (via Slashdot, Hacker News): Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the Google Play Store, the company confirmed to The Verge. After some disgruntled Robinhood users organized campaigns to give the app a one-star review on Google&rsquo;s Play Store and Apple&rsquo;s App Store &mdash; and succeeded in review-bombing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-30T16:13:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"21599b94-0d67-4a06-95cb-7a4646de20c0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-30T16:13:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIVmblA1nSgaVy3pGRt4gwA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,249,91,1195,784,31,1837,26,2035],"class_list":["post-31490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-androidapp","tag-appstore","tag-financial","tag-google-play-store","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-robinhood"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31491,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31490\/revisions\/31491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}