Like what do I even do at this point. Its a free app and these reviews hurt app store performance,

  • Admiral Patrick
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    2082 months ago

    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.

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        452 months ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 months ago

        I’d guess “To whom it may concern” would be the most gender neutral/inclusive way to rephrase that.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        -52 months ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      752 months ago

      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.”

      • @[email protected]
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        This item funtioned exactly as intended but didnt do what i wanted it to do.
        One star.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          After selling on eBay I once got the feedback that the buyer was deeply disappointed because what he had received was exactly what had been listed and shown in the photo, but nothing else, which somehow he had hoped for.

    • @[email protected]
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      172 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        02 months ago

        And then they take 2h to get your food, you find the waiter’s entire ponytail in it, and you’re yelled at if you don’t tip 50%? Idk man, some restaurants get bad reviews for service because they have bad service. And having bad service detracts from the experience of going out to eat.

    • @[email protected]
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      on the French Amazon I once bought Argan oil and one of the 1 star reviews was “very disappointed, smells and feels like oil”.

      I kid you not.

  • @[email protected]
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    972 months ago

    "This oven is horrible! 0 stars! Everything my wife makes on it or in it tastes terrible, "

    Sorry, yo. Ya can’t fix stupid.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        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?

    • ddh
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      152 months ago

      It would explode his head

    • Amon
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      62 months ago

      He’d be blocked banned defederated very quickly

        • Amon
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          52 months ago

          They all tend to flock on similar instances

            • Amon
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              12 months ago

              Probably yea, I used to be on a different instance under a different identity but your digital identity should always be pseudonymous and nomadic. Defed .world if needed. I’ll be fine :)

              • @[email protected]
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                32 months ago

                Lemmy.world has the most conservatives because it has the most users

                If all instances defederated lemmy.world, it will probably stop being the most used, giving the title of instance with most conservatives to another instance

  • @[email protected]
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    472 months ago

    Classic right-wing nut “You have to listen and like what I say or it’s CeNSOrShIp”

  • @[email protected]
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    382 months ago

    I thought reddit killed third party apps? Or are you paying the $10,000,000 per month or whatever it is?

  • @[email protected]
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    352 months ago

    Just challenge the review because it’s not about the app? If you can’t do that, then just let it go.

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    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 )

  • Nougat
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    “Tell me you don’t know how reddit works without saying you don’t know how reddit works.”

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        You joke but meteorologists have received threats because they forecast bad weather on special events.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      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.

      • qantravon
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        42 months ago

        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.

      • qantravon
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        12 months ago

        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.

    • FartsWithAnAccent
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      They probably don’t understand how anything works because they think learning about stuff is “wOkE” and anyone who disagrees with them is a “leftist”.