Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I work at a brewery. Am I not allowed to tell people I like the beer I brew? I’m doing this very wrong I guess my brewery has been enshittified by me. Bummer
Am I not allowed to tell people I like the beer I brew?
That’s not really what he’s doing though. It would be like if you pretended to be a customer and drink your own beer in front of actual customers and were like “WOW! This beer is super good! The guy who made it has a really big dick!”
It’s just shitty to do because it’s sheistery as fuck.
Plex employees totally have the right to review Plex in the store. But they should be expected to advertise that they work for Plex…
Are you allowed to tell people that you dislike your beer, as a representative of the brewery?
Sure, but I like it. I will say I often appreciate negative feedback though. Always trying to improve
you know full well its not a matter of liking the product you’re affiliated with, but an undisclosed conflict of interest in an environment where people have a reasonable expectation of transparent, non-biased testimonials from normal end users, not shilling from paid employees.
If you leave your brewery a public review pretending to just be another customer, yeah thats pretty shitty. You kniw what you’re doing, don’t play games.
You kniw what you’re doing
Exactly. They know what they’re doing and we shouldn’t pretend that they don’t.
Scumbags are all around us, hiding in plain sight.
People really abuse that new and very useful word. It diminishes the usefulness of it.
I saw someone describe rental housing as enshittified.
No honey, it’s just shitty.
It’s very nearly a synonym for value extraction. I guess specifically it refers to the consequences of value extraction on the web, but really I think Doctorow’s whole goal with that campaign was to make people aware of how awful venture capital and value extraction really are for us.
I was going to say if he writes an app and doesn’t like it, something’s wrong there
Perhaps. Either way, he’s biased, and reviews should be unbiased.
They don’t need to be, as long as you disclose your bias.
Reviews of VIM will inherently be biased by interest level in keyboard only navigation. No one can critically review anything entirely without bias unless we allow for reviewers to admit their biases.
Sure, but they didn’t, and that’s the main problem here. But even if they did, it’s a bit sketchy for a commercial product.
gradual@lemmings.world 10 months ago
You can tell people whatever you want and they can criticize you accordingly.
If you don’t disclose your affiliation with a company that you’re shilling, rational people will criticize you for being biased and self-serving.
If you want to avoid this completely rational, acceptable, and expected criticism, then you should reveal any conflicts of interest before or during your promotion of the business.
This shouldn’t need to be spelled out for you, but this generation has been conditioned to be proud of ignorance and defending abuse.