Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,
How does it work after the API butchering?
Yeah I’m curious too! What technical sorcery is OP doing for presumably free API access
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.
It’s there a They/Them for Sir or Madam? Must include that as well.
I’d guess “To whom it may concern” would be the most gender neutral/inclusive way to rephrase that.
Not that I know of. Unless someone has stated their gender or pronouns, I just use people’s names and avoid anything that assumes or implies gender.
“Dearest snookums”
Sadam.
To
it may concern:
Dudes wearing high tops for sure, right?
“Sir or Madam” already is a “They/Them”.
If you believe my therapist friend who is also non-normative in a relevant fashion, demands for pronouns are often ‘othering’ in result, and thus go from farce to force.
So, I write fewer email.
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.
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…
I used to work at the pub in England and the landlord used to write the insane reviews on the chalkboard.
Sure they pulled down your ratings but if you’re at 4.9 anyway it doesn’t really matter and it’s better to showcase the insane reviews than the actually legitimately negative ones.
The best one was the guy that tried to sue us because he was stung by a bee. Because apparently the bees work for us.
I have reported it to Apple, let’s see.
I hope they delete it. Good luck!
What a dipshit…
That’s like being mad at the bus because your chosen destination for the day sucked.
The stupid bus made it rain!
'Murican voters.
Dutch ones are the same. Source: am dutch
“Tell me you don’t know how reddit works without saying you don’t know how reddit works.”
This person sounds insane like one of those people who lives in an RV with signs all over it talking about 5G nanobots and how water causes cancer.
There’s a park in my area. Literally every time I have been there, over several years, there is a van in the parking lot. It has a wire mesh bust of Hillary Clinton on top, and is covered with writings about various conspiracy theories about her, and slogans like “Hillary for Jail!”
Possibly the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.
There’s a park in my area. Literally every time I have been there, over several years, there is a van in the parking lot. It has a wire mesh bust of Hillary Clinton on top, and is covered with writings about various conspiracy theories about her, and slogans like “Hillary for Jail!”
Possibly the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.
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.
This was so bad, that one of the local meteorologists took to making a promo bump with a sarcastic “Thanks Delkis” anytime the weather report was on. It was hilarious hearing him explain that people complained that HE was in charge of the weather.
They probably don’t understand how anything works because they think learning about stuff is wOkE
This is a troll. Nobody truly with that view would copy paste to all the search results instead of just the official app.
You wildly underestimate how stupid and/or ignorant people are.
Classic right-wing nut “You have to listen and like what I say or it’s CeNSOrShIp”
That’s super dumb. Also, I thought there weren’t 3rd party Reddit apps anymore? Do you not still have to pay for the API?
There’s a few tricks around it. Web scraping, for example. I could also see like a webview portal with a custom layout
Third party apps with small users bases or ones that are used by people with disabilities (that have disability features) still work. For now. Also apps that allow for a read only view (meaning they can’t be used to sign in, write/post comments, or upvote/downvote) also still work I believe.
You can report these.
No reason to engage an idiot, not like you’re going to change his mind.
That’s not the point. When you respond to reviews like this the goal is to point out to everyone else who might be reading it that the reviewer is in fact a nut, and therefore their opinion should be discarded out of hand.
this is what happens when you censor only one wing in social media
You’re left with wing nuts?
How dare you make a woke app. /s
The Reddit populace is pretty leftie. Except for the occasional brave soul commenting here and there, you have to search out certain subreddits to hear conservative views.
Not that your app has anything to do with that, of course.
To a “conservative” reality itself must seem extremely left-wing. It’s just their warped perspective.
I’d say it is (was? It’s been ~a year and a half since I used it consistently but I’m guessing it hasn’t changed too much since then) moderately left by US standards but definitely not progressive left - you don’t have to go very far to find thinly-veiled sexism/racism/homophobia, though that might just be because a large portion of the people there are terminally online in a bad way. That being said, there are definitely also communities ranging from conservative to hardcore conservative as well but I actively tried to avoid those so I didn’t really see them in my feeds. The same is true with progressive communities but they tended to drift away from being actually progressive once they got to a certain size.
What a fucking idiot holy shit.
