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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is crazy…I just now checked my iOS App Store and it says it’s 4.8/5 stars. I left a 1 star review 3-4 weeks ago and it never showed up in the reviews. I checked for over a week and either they didn’t post it, or it was removed quickly. And trust me.. it wasn’t filled with obscenities or specific names “spez” or anything like that. (Unlike some I can see that actually made it in the reviews)

Strangely enough the “newest” review gave Reddit 5 stars but is titled..”Reddits API changes are killing it” and goes on to complain about bots, NSFW, Admin Abuse, and “spez is letting it happen “ umm does this reviewer not know how stars work???

I’m also in the USA. But it’s making me upset that I clearly can’t trust the App store’s reviews now. Since in my experience… they’re misleading/erroneous/deleted/ or in my case omitted. 😡

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do your reviews reliably show up for other apps?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This would be the first app review I’ve actually done…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

hm maybe not enough data to draw conclusions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a good opportunity to update your review when that happens too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This may have more to do with the fact that Google search quality bombed when Reddit self-imposed this crisis.