Reddit is buyng 5 star reviews.

They're also definitely doing some sort of keyword manipulation, cause the official Reddit App is fairly high in the result list when searching for Lemmy.

On another note: hi, I just came here today after RIF stopped working 👋

One bot's review is referring to Reddit as Tripomate. Lol oh reddit...

After seeing this, I thought I'd go over to the Play Store to leave a 1 star review. Then discovered I had already left a 1 star review (complaining about their shitty interface) a few months ago, which I'd totally forgotten about ;-)

We should report them as fake. Not sure how many reports it takes to get someone to look at it but it might be worth a shot.

I feel like I must be crazy but these reviews do not read like 5 star reviews. Seems super suspect.

Reddit is completely astroturfed now. Nothing but bots and humans that act like bots.

Lmao I saw a 5 star review that said the official app was "better than any 3rd party app", that it had "non-intrusive ads", and asking for an ads toggle for premium users to be able to support reddit. I can't even tell if it's some sort of elaborate sarcasm. Wild.

Currently 2.4/5.0 on the Play Store. Wasn't that long ago when it was around 4.0. Their rating has taken a beating over the last few weeks.

Wow, they're really spezzing it up!

This reminds to give reddit 1 star on Playstore.

Just leave my first 1 star to reddit app

That's how you know that they know that the vocal minority might become a vocal majority.

Can't say I'm even remotely surprised. It's unfortunate that even user reviews have become all but useless on most platforms due to corpo bullshit like this.

just left a 1 star review, because it honestly deserves it

They just continue to validate my decision to walk away

Isn't buying reviews/fake users something a struggling new startup does, not something that has been around for > 10 years. This is kinda sad (if indeed these are bought reviews).

Is this screenshot from Apple or Google stores (I don't know what either look like to be honest). I wonder if the same thing is happening on the other store now too.

I was seeing this today too! I’m reporting all those comments to the App Store, I hope it does something

Ironic that the FTC is going to likely make these illegal soon. Anyone want to save screenshots?

Just left a 1 star review and reported a bunch of their obviously fake 5 star reviews

No. It’s the new bot users rating their new favorite app.

Done my part too, hope they get review bombed 💣

They also blocked rating the app on mobile, I had to go online and rate it via google's site, and im not sure it actually stuck.

I just gave them a 1. Doing my part.

How lame.

I gave it a 1 star review. I'm doing my part o7

My old 5 star review became 1 star this morning. And like this will remain. Spez can buy the whole Chinese review-farm black market, the end is the end, the corpse is now smelling and will smell until it's buried.

Not even surprised at this point

Anything to boost that IPO huh.

Been happening for sometimes most new 5 star review don't even make sense there is one saying something like this app is surely a big bouncy ball.

They just continue to validate my decision to walk away

Just left a 1 star review and reported a bunch of their obviously fake 5 star reviews

Funny story I was gonna go make a 1 star review in response to this and found out I already submitted one over a year ago!

So I guess instead I'll go and mark only 1 star reviews as helpful (maybe also a few 5 star reviews in cyrillic script, just for fun.)

Am I confused, or isn't this a duplicate post in this same sub/instance?

Installed reddit app to do my part 🫡

Would be weird if they didn't at least try to do this

My old 5 star review became 1 star this morning. And like this will remain. Spez can buy the whole Chinese review-farm black market, the end is the end, the corpse is now smelling and will smell until it's buried.

I have been continually surprised by how low Reddit is willing to sink.

I should stop being shocked at such despicable behaviour.

Am I confused, or isn't this a duplicate post in this same sub/instance?

Anything to boost that IPO huh

My old 5 star review became 1 star this morning, and for an app that I never used (I was on boost the entire time but the reddit community was nice so why not?). Spez can buy the whole Chinese review-farm black market, the end is the end, the corpse is now smelling and will smell until it's buried.

My old 5 star review became 1 star this morning, and for an app that I never used (I was on boost but the community was nice so why not?). And like this will remain. Spez can buy the whole Chinese review-farm black market, the end is the end, the corpse is now smelling and will smell until it's buried.

The last time it was posted I investigated the reviews on Google play, and every rating was made by a real person, or a bot impersonating the real person. There is no way to tell appart except by contacting the person.
Avoid falling into a circle jerk, we are better than this.

They just continue to validate my decision to walk away