This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,
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.
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 loved this idea it was exactly what was described but I wanted a different color 1/5 stars
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.
"This oven is horrible! 0 stars! Everything my wife makes on it or in it tastes terrible, "
Sorry, yo. Ya can't fix stupid.
That was a very diplomatic response to some stupid asshole like this.
Too diplomatic even.
Are you allowed to respond honestly?
If you made a response like:
"Dear reviewer,
When I wrote the code for this app, which displays content from reddit that I have no control over, I never envisioned some fuckwit moron would be so stupid that he or she would get mad at the App for just displaying what's on reddit.
In the future, I'll add a disclaimer that goes "Are you some anti-DEI piece of shit who thinks everything is Woke? Press the large red button icon below to only see the "based" subreddit." I hope this will help you understand how to use this App, you fucking idiot.
Sincerely, Developer"
would that get your kicked off the store?
That's like being mad at the bus because your chosen destination for the day sucked.
The stupid bus made it rain!
If he think Reddit hates his conservative views, he’d explode if he came here
It would explode his head
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...
Ahh they stepped out of their echochamber because the app shows r/all if youre not subscribed to any subreddit. Also, sometimes im forced to use reddit, love your app.
Just challenge the review because it's not about the app? If you can't do that, then just let it go.
You were way too kind and accommodating towards that piece of shit.
probably the kind of person to scream "woke DEI" everytime they see someone who isn't white working at burger king.
Classic right-wing nut "You have to listen and like what I say or it's CeNSOrShIp"
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
What a fucking idiot holy shit.
Oh boohooh did the poor wittle "conservative" encounter pushback on its silly wittle Fox-news-adled ideas?
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 )
In next update.
How dare you make a woke app. /s
i'm so tired of lazy greedy developers implying i'm a moron with their radical leftist "code"
"Tell me you don't know how reddit works without saying you don't know how reddit works."
I'm giving 1-star ratings to weather apps because it's too cold outside.
You joke but meteorologists have received threats because they forecast bad weather on special events.
You can report these.
I’m going to give you a five star review to balance it. (Swiss app store)
What a dipshit...
How do these apps still work? Aren't the apis fucked? Is this just some fancy browser with extra steps?
