Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,
That was a very diplomatic response to some stupid asshole like this.
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"This oven is horrible! 0 stars! Everything my wife makes on it or in it tastes terrible, "
Sorry, yo. Ya can't fix stupid.
I thought reddit killed third party apps? Or are you paying the $10,000,000 per month or whatever it is?
It just scrapes for data, you can’t log in, post, or comment so no need to use the API
If he think Reddit hates his conservative views, he’d explode if he came here
It would explode his head
hey man i use your app rdx. My only sane reason to browse reddit…..thank you for making it….i wish search suggestions were better ( eg . if specific subredit is not famous , it wont index and show under search suggestions real time as i am typing )
American “conservatives” are a scourge.
I hope there’s a way to have the review removed for being irrelevant. I love your app btw, please keep it up. The only issue that’s kinda annoying right now is that I lose my place in the feed when I swipe back out from a post.
Like writing a product review and giving one star for shipping speed lol.
Or recipe reviews.
"I didn't have flour, so I substituted lard. I also didn't have sugar, so I substituted salted cod. Worst cake ever. 1 star."
I read somewhere that the best places to eat are Yelp 2 star places where the reviewer whines about service. It suggests the reviewer wanted to give a 1 star review because they were mad but had to concede that the food was good, hence 2 stars.
I loved this idea it was exactly what was described but I wanted a different color 1/5 stars
Reddit is so liberal /s
Its run by Zios
The pizzeria?!? It all maQes sense now
I would mind pizzerias running things tbh
What a fucking idiot holy shit.
You're responding to a Steve sock puppet account. It might not be him on the other end, likely it isn't, but it's his. He wants all the money and doesn't like to share because he's a greedy little pigboy.
I see this all the time on user reviews. A quarter of them are just people bitching about partisan politics.
How dare you make a woke app. /s
Standard reply:
Dear sir or madam:
Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I'm replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.
I'm guessing you're basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven't seen it:
Dear Mr. Cox:
Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.
Very truly yours,
CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.
James N. Bailey, General Counsel
cc: Arthur B. Modell
Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?
I'm basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth's yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.
Dear sir or madam:
Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they've signed your name at the bottom. [...]
Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don't know.
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That's like being mad at the bus because your chosen destination for the day sucked.
The stupid bus made it rain!
Classic right-wing nut "You have to listen and like what I say or it's CeNSOrShIp"
Can you report the review as not relevant?
Probably. I have no experience with the Google Play Store end of things, but we've gotten non-reviews written by crackpots removed from our Google Business profile by just pointing out to Google that they were either off topic or from someone who we could not identify in any of our records as being a person who actually did business with us.
For example, there was one guy who went around copy-pasting the same one star rant to seemingly every retail business in the city whining about mask requirements during COVID, which didn't have jack monkey squat do to with us and was in fact a state government mandate that we did not control. As a public business we have to comply with the law. Google took that one down when we reported it, although I still see examples of the same screed from the same guy attached to other businesses who apparently didn't have the wherewithal to complain.
I imagine "app that serves third party content the author doesn't control and reviewer is complaining about the content not the app" is a situation that is very well understood at Google. Whether or not you can make them give a shit is a different question...
You can report these.
How do these apps still work? Aren't the apis fucked? Is this just some fancy browser with extra steps?
I'm on Android so I didn't look into OP's app. I just went looking into it after this post. Apparently if you create your own developer app ID and patch an app to use yours instead, I guess your usage is too low for Reddit to bill. Something like that.
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