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

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

    Sorry, yo. Ya can’t fix stupid.

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      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.

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      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.”

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    No reason to engage an idiot, not like you’re going to change his mind.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      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.

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    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.

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    Your first error was to create a reddit app.
    Your second error was to not create or contribute to a Lemmy app instead.

    Hope that helped. :)

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        And this is actually the issue. As a developer I want to build and app based on what interests me. Then I want to write a post about it.

        The comments:

        • person 1: Why would you waste your time building an app for that platform, you should build an app for this platform that way less people use”
        • person 2: “nah that’s a waste of time you should build an app for this even more niche platform with even less users”
        • person 3: “you should just use RSS feeds and anything else is a waste of time”

        Me as a developer “thanks guys I just wanted to build an app for a platform I’m passionate about”

        Wrote this comment on my own lemmy client, because I like using about lemmy :)