The Robinhood App, which accidentally became the main character in Gamestop’s big rollover, was bombarded with negative reviews. Photo: Taken from Google Store page
Robinhood, the main app for retail investors, has recently announced a limit on the number of shares that can be purchased per household, leading to negative reviews on its app store. Recently, U.S. media reported that Google has dealt with the negative review bombardment by removing nearly 100,000 negative reviews. Although the app’s rating was once pulled back to around 4.2 stars, angry netizens bombarded it with negative reviews again, and by press Time it was back to a super-low rating of 1 star.
Shares of U.S. gaming retailer GameStop have recently become a major battleground for retail investors around the world against Wall Street’s shorting army, with short-selling institutions now estimated to have lost more than $19 billion. However, Robinhood, a company mainly used by retail investors to place orders, announced on the 28th that it had banned users from continuing to buy GameStop stock as a promotional gimmick, and later restricted users to a maximum of 5 shares or even 1 share per person, making many users quite unhappy and “attacking” the Robinhood App Google store page to Many users were upset and attacked the Robinhood App Google Store page to vent their frustration with negative reviews, and Robinhood’s rating dropped to 1 star.
However, later on, some users found that Google had deleted a large number of negative reviews, bringing the rating back up to a normal level of 4.2 stars. Google said they only delete responses that violate the rules, but leave the normal comments intact. The foreign media said that after comparison, Google deleted nearly 100,000 comments in one day.
However, although Google’s deletion of the malicious comments has helped Robinhood’s rating to recover, the incident was exposed, but the netizens’ anger could not be stopped, and Robinhood’s Google store page gradually accumulated nearly 240,000 ratings and responses by the deadline, and the app’s rating was once again reduced to 1 star through the bombardment of negative comments.
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